[PATCH] arm: exynos: generalize power register address calculation

Chander Kashyap chander.kashyap at linaro.org
Sun Apr 13 21:27:41 PDT 2014


Hi,

On 10 April 2014 11:18, Chander Kashyap <chander.kashyap at linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi Tomasz,
>
> On 9 April 2014 20:15, Tomasz Figa <t.figa at samsung.com> wrote:
>> On 09.04.2014 15:49, Chander Kashyap wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Tomasz,
>>>
>>> On 9 April 2014 17:19, Tomasz Figa <t.figa at samsung.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Chander,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 09.04.2014 13:09, Chander Kashyap wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently status/configuration power register values are hard-coded for
>>>>> cpu1.
>>>>>
>>>>> Make it generic so that it is useful for SoC's with more than two cpus.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Chander Kashyap <chander.kashyap at linaro.org>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> changes in v2 : Used existing macros for clusterid and cpuid calculation
>>>>>
>>>>>    arch/arm/mach-exynos/hotplug.c  |   15 ++++++++++++---
>>>>>    arch/arm/mach-exynos/platsmp.c  |   20 +++++++++++++++-----
>>>>>    arch/arm/mach-exynos/regs-pmu.h |    9 +++++++--
>>>>>    3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-exynos/hotplug.c
>>>>> b/arch/arm/mach-exynos/hotplug.c
>>>>> index 5eead53..eab6121 100644
>>>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-exynos/hotplug.c
>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-exynos/hotplug.c
>>>>> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
>>>>>
>>>>>    #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
>>>>>    #include <asm/cp15.h>
>>>>> +#include <asm/cputype.h>
>>>>>    #include <asm/smp_plat.h>
>>>>>
>>>>>    #include <plat/cpu.h>
>>>>> @@ -92,11 +93,19 @@ static inline void cpu_leave_lowpower(void)
>>>>>
>>>>>    static inline void platform_do_lowpower(unsigned int cpu, int
>>>>> *spurious)
>>>>>    {
>>>>> +       unsigned int mpidr, cpunr, cluster;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +       mpidr = cpu_logical_map(cpu);
>>>>> +       cpunr = MPIDR_AFFINITY_LEVEL(mpidr, 0);
>>>>> +       cluster = MPIDR_AFFINITY_LEVEL(mpidr, 1);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +       /* Maximum possible cpus in a cluster can be 4 */
>>>>> +       cpunr += cluster * 4;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I believe this is rather a weak assumption. First of all, the limit seems
>>>> to
>>>> be hardcoded only for the few existing SoCs. In addition, the value is
>>>> not
>>>> used as a maximum, but rather it is assumed that each cluster has always
>>>> four cores.
>>>
>>>
>>> The MPIDR register contains 2 bits for cpu id. Hence maximum number of
>>> cpus can be 4 only (A15/A9/A7).
>>>
>>
>> This is not what I meant. Exynos5260 contains 2 big cores (not 4) and 4
>> little cores. Are you sure that PMU register layout on Exynos5260 matches
>> your equation?
>>
>
> Yes the equation covers that as the PMU register layout takes care for that:
> Address offset are as follows:
> 2 Big Cores:
> cpu0 : 2000
> cpu1: 2080
>
> 4 Little cores:
>
> cpu0: 2200
> cpu1: 2280
> cpu2: 2300
> cpu3: 2380
>
>>
>>>>
>>>> Moreover, it is assumed here that the mapping between core ID (calculated
>>>> by
>>>> the equation below) and PMU core numbers is 1:1, which is not true. On
>>>> Exynos4210, the cluster ID is always 0x09 and on Exynos4x12 it is 0x0a,
>>>> which will lead to completely wrong register offsets.
>>>
>>>
>>> Exynos4210 and Exynos4x12, cluster ids are not passed from DT as it
>>> breaks the gic_init_bases. Hence the Physical CpuID for Exynos4210
>>> will be 0,1 and Exynos4x12 will be 0,1,2,3.
>>>
>>> So it will not break.
>>
>>
>> I already have patches ready fixing GIC driver, just waiting for 3.15-rc1 to
>> be released. Anyway, CPU topology in DT is mandatory and Exynos4 device tree
>> files need to be fixed to contain them. This needs to be accounted for in
>> any changes touching CPU topology related code.
>>
>
> That's great.
>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I believe the proper way to deal with this is to provide per-CPU property
>>>> in
>>>> DT called "samsung,pmu-offset" that could be used be code like this to
>>>> calculate register addresses properly.
>>>>
>>>> For now, I would recommend doing the above ignoring cluster ID completely
>>>> to
>>>> not break (and actually fix) single cluster systems and existing multi
>>>> cluster ones on which only the first cluster is supported now.
>>>>
>>>> After that, per-CPU PMU offset should be implemented to support
>>>> multi-cluster SoCs with proper support of multiple clusters.
>>>
>>>
>>> As of now the smp-boot (cores > 2) is broken. This is required to fix it.
>>
>>
>> SMP boot works fine on all four cores of Exynos 4412. Obiously hot-(un)plug
>> doesn't, but this is another issue.
>>
>
> It works as of now as at power on all the cores powered on. Hence the
> powerOn in platsmp.c doent make any difference,  It breaks in hotplug
> as we always poweron cpu1, not the correct cpu.
>
>> Best regards,
>> Tomasz
>
>
>
> --
> with warm regards,
> Chander Kashyap

Any other comments on this patch. If not then can it be merged?

-- 
with warm regards,
Chander Kashyap



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