[RFC PATCH 2/7] ARM: SMP: generic SMP spin-table method routines

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon Mar 31 11:21:17 EDT 2014


Hi Alex,

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:12:55PM +0000, Alex Elder wrote:
> Implement a centralized version of the spin table (a.k.a. "holding
> pen") method of secondary CPU initialization.  This is the first
> step in removing a number of duplicate implementations of this code.
> 
> The eventual goal is to allow "enable-method" properties in device
> tree nodes for CPUs to select and use this common code.  As such,
> some of the names are selected to match the names used in the SMP
> spin-table code for ARM64.

Given that there is a fundamental difference to the spin-table protocol
in use on arm64 (in that here we are required to poke an arbitrary
interrupt controller to send an SGI rather than just issuing a SEV), I
would prefer that this had a name other than "spin-table" to
disambiguate the two protocols.

> 
> Note:
> Most implementations examine only the bottom 4 bits of the MPIDR in
> order to determine a CPU's id.  This version looks at the bottom 24
> bits instead, based on MPIDR_HWID_BITMASK.  If using only 4 bits is
> a requirement for most of the platforms that might use it I'll
> switch this use 4 bits instead.

Given that we require people to describe all of the MPIDR Aff* fields in
the DT, and can update any board files as necessary, is this a problem?

IMO Using all the Aff bits is preferable.

Cheers,
Mark.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder at linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h |    5 +++
>  arch/arm/kernel/head.S     |   33 +++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/kernel/smp.c      |   77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 115 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h
> index 22a3b9b..83064d1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h
> @@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ struct secondary_data {
>  extern struct secondary_data secondary_data;
>  extern volatile int pen_release;
>  
> +extern volatile u32 secondary_holding_pen_release;
> +extern void secondary_holding_pen(void);
> +extern int smp_boot_secondary(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle);
> +extern void smp_secondary_init(unsigned int cpu);
> +
>  extern int __cpu_disable(void);
>  
>  extern void __cpu_die(unsigned int cpu);
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
> index f5f381d..3340f94 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
>  #include <asm/memory.h>
>  #include <asm/thread_info.h>
>  #include <asm/pgtable.h>
> +#include <asm/cputype.h>
>  
>  #if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_LL) && !defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_SEMIHOSTING)
>  #include CONFIG_DEBUG_LL_INCLUDE
> @@ -402,6 +403,38 @@ __secondary_data:
>  	.long	.
>  	.long	secondary_data
>  	.long	__secondary_switched
> +
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Secondary cores spin in this "holding pen" until they are
> +	 * signaled to proceed by jumping to secondary_startup
> +	 * (above).  A core knows to proceed when it finds that the
> +	 * value of the secondary_holding_pen_release global matches
> +	 * its (hardware) CPU ID.  The secondary core acknowledges
> +	 * it has begun executing by writing an invalid value (-1)
> +	 * back into secondary_holding_pen_release (in
> +	 * smp_operations->smp_secondary_init).
> +	 */
> +ENTRY(secondary_holding_pen)
> + ARM_BE8(setend	be)
> +	mrc	p15, 0, r0, c0, c0, 5	@ Get MPIDR and extract CPU id from it
> +	and	r0, r0, #MPIDR_HWID_BITMASK
> +	adr	r4, 1f			@ Get secondary_holding_pen_release
> +	ldmia	r4, {r5, r6}		@ and compute its physical address
> +	sub	r4, r4, r5
> +	add	r6, r6, r4
> +pen:	ldr	r7, [r6]		@ while secondary_holding_pen_release
> +	cmp	r7, r0			@ doesn't hold our CPU id, spin
> +	bne	pen
> +	/*
> +	 * At this point we have been released from the holding pen;
> +	 * secondary_stack now contains the SVC stack for this core.
> +	 */
> +	b	secondary_startup
> +ENDPROC(secondary_holding_pen)
> +	.align
> +1:	.long	.
> +	.long	secondary_holding_pen_release
>  #endif /* defined(CONFIG_SMP) */
>  
>  
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
> index b7b4c86..e18151a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ struct secondary_data secondary_data;
>   * boot "holding pen"
>   */
>  volatile int pen_release = -1;
> +volatile u32 secondary_holding_pen_release = -1;
> +static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(boot_lock);
>  
>  enum ipi_msg_type {
>  	IPI_WAKEUP,
> @@ -386,6 +388,81 @@ asmlinkage void secondary_start_kernel(void)
>  	cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_ONLINE);
>  }
>  
> +static void write_pen_release(int val)
> +{
> +	secondary_holding_pen_release = val;
> +	smp_wmb();
> +	sync_cache_w(&secondary_holding_pen_release);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * This is a smp_operations->smp_boot_secondary function, called by
> + * boot_secondary() to signal a secondary core spinning in
> + * secondary_holding_pen() that it should proceed.  The current
> + * (boot) core writes the secondary's (hardware) CPU ID into
> + * secondary_holding_pen_release.  The secondary core signals it has
> + * started running by rewriting an invalid value (-1) back
> + * into secondary_holding_pen_release.
> + */
> +int smp_boot_secondary(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
> +{
> +	unsigned long timeout;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * The secondary core will wait for this lock after
> +	 * signaling it has started.  That way we know it won't
> +	 * proceed until we've recognized the acknowledgement.
> +	 */
> +	raw_spin_lock(&boot_lock);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Release the secondary core from its holding pen by
> +	 * writing its CPU ID into secondary_holding_pen_release.
> +	 */
> +	write_pen_release(cpu_logical_map(cpu));
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Send the secondary CPU a soft interrupt, thereby causing
> +	 * it to jump to its secondary entry point.
> +	 */
> +	arch_send_wakeup_ipi_mask(cpumask_of(cpu));
> +
> +	/* Give it some time to start running. */
> +	timeout = jiffies + (1 * HZ);
> +	while (time_before(jiffies, timeout)) {
> +		smp_rmb();
> +		if (secondary_holding_pen_release == -1)
> +			break;
> +
> +		udelay(10);
> +	}
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * We now know that the secondary core is running (or it
> +	 * timed out).  Release the lock so it can proceed.
> +	 */
> +	raw_spin_unlock(&boot_lock);
> +
> +	return secondary_holding_pen_release == -1 ? 0 : -ENOSYS;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * This is a smp_operations->secondary_init function, called by
> + * secondary_start_kernel() on a newly-booted secondary cpu to do
> + * some initialization activity.  All we need to do is write
> + * secondary_holding_pen_release with an invalid value to signal
> + * we've started executing.  We synchronize with the boot core by
> + * waiting to acquire the boot lock before continuing.
> + */
> +void smp_secondary_init(unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> +	/* Let the primary processor know we're out of the pen. */
> +	write_pen_release(-1);
> +
> +	raw_spin_lock(&boot_lock);
> +	raw_spin_unlock(&boot_lock);
> +}
> +
>  void __init smp_cpus_done(unsigned int max_cpus)
>  {
>  	printk(KERN_INFO "SMP: Total of %d processors activated.\n",
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 
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