[PATCH] ARM: EXYNOS: reset KFC cores when cpu is up

Krzysztof Kozlowski k.kozlowski at samsung.com
Mon Aug 31 17:21:55 PDT 2015


On 01.09.2015 07:46, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> 
> [adding Krzysztof Kozlowski to cc list]
> 
> Hello Kevin,
> 
> On 09/01/2015 12:11 AM, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> Chanho Park <parkch98 at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> The cpu booting of exynos5422 has been still broken since we discussed
>>> it in last year[1]. This patch is inspired from odroid xu3
>>> code(Actually, it was from samsung exynos vendor kernel)[2]. This weird
>>> reset code was founded exynos5420 octa cores series SoCs and only
>>> required for the first boot core is the little core(kingfisher core).
>>> Some of the exynos5420 boards and all of the exynos5422 boards will be
>>> required this code.
>>> There is two ways to check the little core is the first cpu. One is
>>> checking GPG2CON[1] gpio value and the other is checking the cluster
>>> number of the first cpu. I selected the latter because it's more easier
>>> than the former.
>>>
>>> Changes since RFC[3]:
>>> - drop checking soc_is_exynos5800 to extend this codes to
>>> exynos5420/5422 boards.
>>> - kfc cores will be reset only if the cpu0 is kfc core.
>>> - Rebase top of the kukjin's for-next branch
>>>
>>> [1]:http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-June/350632.html
>>> [2]:https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6782891/
>>> [3]:http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-July/356610.html
>>>
>>> Cc: Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim at samsung.com>
>>> Cc: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi at samsung.com>
>>> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman at kernel.org>
>>> Cc: Heesub Shin <heesub.shin at samsung.com>
>>> Cc: Mauro Ribeiro <mauro.ribeiro at hardkernel.com>
>>> Cc: Abhilash Kesavan <a.kesavan at samsung.com>
>>> Cc: Przemyslaw Marczak <p.marczak at samsung.com>
>>> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
>>> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski at samsung.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Chanho Park <parkch98 at gmail.com>
>>
>>> ---
>>>  arch/arm/mach-exynos/mcpm-exynos.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
>>>  arch/arm/mach-exynos/regs-pmu.h    |  6 ++++++
>>>  2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-exynos/mcpm-exynos.c b/arch/arm/mach-exynos/mcpm-exynos.c
>>> index 9bdf547..5b69ed2 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-exynos/mcpm-exynos.c
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-exynos/mcpm-exynos.c
>>> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
>>>  #include <asm/cputype.h>
>>>  #include <asm/cp15.h>
>>>  #include <asm/mcpm.h>
>>> +#include <asm/smp_plat.h>
>>>  
>>>  #include "regs-pmu.h"
>>>  #include "common.h"
>>> @@ -70,7 +71,22 @@ static int exynos_cpu_powerup(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int cluster)
>>>  		cluster >= EXYNOS5420_NR_CLUSTERS)
>>>  		return -EINVAL;
>>>  
>>> -	exynos_cpu_power_up(cpunr);
>>> +	if (!exynos_cpu_power_state(cpunr)) {
>>> +		exynos_cpu_power_up(cpunr);
>>> +
>>> +		/* This assumes the cluster number of the eagle is 0 and the
>>> +		 * kfc is 1. When the system was booted from the kfc core,
>>> +		 * they should be reset */
>>
>> minor: fix multi-line comment style (search for 'multi-line' in
>> Documentation/CodingStyle)
>>
>> Also minor, but personally, I prefer seeing A15/A7 instead of eagle/KFC
>> as those names are fading from my memory and I can't seem to remember
>> which one is which. :/
>>
>>> +		if (cluster &&
>>> +		    cluster == MPIDR_AFFINITY_LEVEL(cpu_logical_map(0), 1)) {
>>> +			while (!pmu_raw_readl(S5P_PMU_SPARE2))
>>> +				udelay(10);
>>> +
>>> +			pmu_raw_writel(EXYNOS5420_KFC_CORE_RESET(cpu),
>>> +					EXYNOS_SWRESET);
>>> +		}
>>> +	}
>>> +
>>>  	return 0;
>>>  }
>>
>> I tested this on top of mainline (v4.2) using exynos_defconfig (with
>> BL_SWITCHER disabled) and I now see all 8 CPUs booting.  Nice!
>>
>> Tested-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman at linaro.org>
>>
>> Also, please note that this does not fix another fundamental problem
>> with this board in that the firmware puts CCI into secure mode, so
>> linux/MCPM cannot manage it, causing hangs whenever CPUidle is enabled
>> (because b.L cpuidle driver tries to use MCPM, which needs to manage
>> CCI.)
>>
>> In order for this to not hang when using CPUidle, the following patch is
>> also needed.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5422-odroidxu3.dts
>> b/arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5422-odroidxu3.dts
>> index 78e6a502f320..7891bd05bf8e 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5422-odroidxu3.dts
>> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5422-odroidxu3.dts
>> @@ -49,3 +49,11 @@
>>                 shunt-resistor = <10000>;
>>         };
>>  };
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * Secure firmware prevents CCI access/usage from linux, so must be
>> disabled
>> + * to prevent usage by MCPM.
>> + */
>> +&cci {
>> +       status = "disabled";
>> +};
>>
>>
> 
> I posted a similar patch that instead disabling CCI for the XU3 board,
> it disables in exynos5422-odroidxu3-common.dtsi since all Exynos5422
> Odroid boards have the same broken firmware and so the same issue:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/29/59
> 
> Krzysztof tested it on an Odroid XU3 Lite and reported that disabling
> CCI caused some CPUs to fail to boot even with $subject applied:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/29/65

Indeed. On Odroid XU3 Chanho's patch gives me 8 CPUs up. Disabling CCI
causes fails on CPU{5,6,7} (Cortex-A15).

Best regards,
Krzysztof

> 
> Did you succeed booting all CPUs with CONFIG_ARM_BIG_LITTLE_CPUIDLE
> enabled and CCI disabled in the the Odroid XU3 DTS?
> 
> Best regards,
> 




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