[PATCH] ARM: Update SMP_ON_UP code to detect A9MPCore with 1 CPU devices

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Tue Sep 24 13:43:53 EDT 2013


On Tuesday 24 September 2013 01:08 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Santosh,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 02:31:04PM +0100, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>> On Tuesday 13 August 2013 07:19 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 07:34:13PM +0100, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>>>> On Friday 02 August 2013 11:48 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
>>>>> I think this an A9-specific register, which reads as 0 on UP A9 and reads as
>>>>> some form of PERIPH_BASE for SMP parts. The issue I have is when PERIPH_BASE
>>>>> is zero.
>>>>>
>>>> What do we do here ? Should we document this in the code and proceed ?
>>>> Mostly there is no platform with PERIPH_BASE = 0, so its should be fine but
>>>> I am open for any other alternative.
>>>
>>> The only other alternative I can think of is forcing people to have
>>> CONFIG_SMP=n, but that blows away single zImage for your platform.
>>>
>> Yep which surely we don't want considering after so much effort we
>> have it working first place. How about going ahead with assumption
>> that PERIPH_BASE = 0 case doesn't work.
> 
> It's been over a month and I can't think of anything better than this
> without jeopardising the single zImage effort. However, it also doesn't seem
> fair if we rule out the possibility of single zImage for future SoCs which
> use 0x0 as their PERIPH_BASE (I don't know of any at the moment).
> 
> So how about we go ahead with this, but add a big fat comment to the code in
> head.S saying that, if a future SoC *does* use 0x0 as the PERIPH_BASE, then
> the check will need to be #ifdef'd or equivalent for the Aegis platform?
> 
I agree. Updated patch end of the email. If you are fine with this version,
will stick it into RMK's patch system.

Regards,
Santosh

>From 05b1b43324f3e8d10a38f78dbcbf7632d4c3530c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vaibhav Bedia <vaibhav.bedia at ti.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:01:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: Update SMP_ON_UP code to detect A9MPCore with 1 CPU
 devices

The generic code is well equipped to differentiate between
SMP and UP configurations.However, there are some devices which
use Cortex-A9 MP core IP with 1 CPU as configuration. To let
these SOCs to co-exist in a CONFIG_SMP=y build by leveraging
the SMP_ON_UP support, we need to additionally check the
number the cores in Cortex-A9 MPCore configuration. Without
such a check in place, the startup code tries to execute
ALT_SMP() set of instructions which lead to CPU faults.

The issue was spotted on TI's Aegis device and this patch
makes now the device work with omap2plus_defconfig which
enables SMP by default. The change is kept limited to only
Cortex-A9 MPCore detection code.

Note that if any future SoC *does* use 0x0 as the PERIPH_BASE, then
the SCU address check code needs to be #ifdef'd for for the Aegis
platform.

Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>

Acked-by: Sricharan R <r.sricharan at ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Bedia <vaibhav.bedia at ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/head.S |   21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
index 2c7cc1e..476de57 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
@@ -487,7 +487,26 @@ __fixup_smp:
 	mrc	p15, 0, r0, c0, c0, 5	@ read MPIDR
 	and	r0, r0, #0xc0000000	@ multiprocessing extensions and
 	teq	r0, #0x80000000		@ not part of a uniprocessor system?
-	moveq	pc, lr			@ yes, assume SMP
+	bne    __fixup_smp_on_up	@ no, assume UP
+
+	@ Core indicates it is SMP. Check for Aegis SOC where a single
+	@ Cortex-A9 CPU is present but SMP operations fault.
+	mov	r4, #0x41000000
+	orr	r4, r4, #0x0000c000
+	orr	r4, r4, #0x00000090
+	teq	r3, r4			@ Check for ARM Cortex-A9
+	movne	pc, lr			@ Not ARM Cortex-A9,
+
+	@ If a future SoC *does* use 0x0 as the PERIPH_BASE, then the
+	@ below address check will need to be #ifdef'd or equivalent
+	@ for the Aegis platform.
+	mrc	p15, 4, r0, c15, c0	@ get SCU base address
+	teq	r0, #0x0		@ '0' on actual UP A9 hardware
+	beq	__fixup_smp_on_up	@ So its an A9 UP
+	ldr	r0, [r0, #4]		@ read SCU Config
+	and	r0, r0, #0x3		@ number of CPUs
+	teq	r0, #0x0		@ is 1?
+	movne	pc, lr
 
 __fixup_smp_on_up:
 	adr	r0, 1f
-- 
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