[PATCH 11/14] arm64: add function to get a cpu's MADT GICC table

Lorenzo Pieralisi lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com
Thu Mar 23 11:33:06 PDT 2017


On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:04:48AM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Currently the ACPI parking protocol code needs to parse each CPU's MADT
> GICC table to extract the mailbox address and so on. Each time we parse
> a GICC table, we call back to the parking protocol code to parse it.
> 
> This has been fine so far, but we're about to have more code that needs
> to extract data from the GICC tables, and adding a callback for each
> user is going to get unwieldy.
> 
> Instead, this patch ensures that we stash a copy of each CPU's GICC
> table at boot time, such that anything needing to parse it can later
> request it. This will allow for other parsers of GICC, and for
> simplification to the ACPI parking protocol code. Note that we must
> store a copy, rather than a pointer, since the core ACPI code
> temporarily maps/unmaps tables while iterating over them.
> 
> Since we parse the MADT before we know how many CPUs we have (and hence
> before we setup the percpu areas), we must use an NR_CPUS sized array.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h |  2 ++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c       | 10 ++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

Most of the static array storage is a waste of memory but it makes
things much simpler and if it does become a problem we know how to
fix it so:

Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h
> index c1976c0..0e99978 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h
> @@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ static inline bool acpi_has_cpu_in_madt(void)
>  	return true;
>  }
>  
> +struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt *acpi_cpu_get_madt_gicc(int cpu);
> +
>  static inline void arch_fix_phys_package_id(int num, u32 slot) { }
>  void __init acpi_init_cpus(void);
>  
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> index ef1caae..390c277 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -518,6 +518,13 @@ static int __init smp_cpu_setup(int cpu)
>  static unsigned int cpu_count = 1;
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
> +static struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt cpu_madt_gicc[NR_CPUS];
> +
> +struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt *acpi_cpu_get_madt_gicc(int cpu)
> +{
> +	return &cpu_madt_gicc[cpu];
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * acpi_map_gic_cpu_interface - parse processor MADT entry
>   *
> @@ -552,6 +559,7 @@ static int __init smp_cpu_setup(int cpu)
>  			return;
>  		}
>  		bootcpu_valid = true;
> +		cpu_madt_gicc[0] = *processor;
>  		early_map_cpu_to_node(0, acpi_numa_get_nid(0, hwid));
>  		return;
>  	}
> @@ -562,6 +570,8 @@ static int __init smp_cpu_setup(int cpu)
>  	/* map the logical cpu id to cpu MPIDR */
>  	cpu_logical_map(cpu_count) = hwid;
>  
> +	cpu_madt_gicc[cpu_count] = *processor;
> +
>  	/*
>  	 * Set-up the ACPI parking protocol cpu entries
>  	 * while initializing the cpu_logical_map to
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 



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