[PATCH 2/6] arm64: Allow mismatched 32-bit EL0 support

[Qais Yousef]

On 11/09/20 13:52, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 02:48:35PM +0000, Qais Yousef wrote:
> > On 11/06/20 13:00, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 12:54:25PM +0000, Qais Yousef wrote:
> > > > FWIW I have my v3 over here in case it's of any help. It solves the problem of
> > > > HWCAP discovery when late AArch32 CPU is booted by populating boot_cpu_date
> > > > with 32bit features then.
> > > > 
> > > > 	git clone https://git.gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-qy.git -b asym-aarch32-upstream-v3 origin/asym-aarch32-upstream-v3
> > > 
> > > Cheers, I've done something similar. I was hoping to post it today, but I've
> > > been side-tracked with bug fixing this morning. The main headache I ended up
> > > with was allowing late-onlining of 64-bit-only CPUs if all the boot CPUs
> > > are 32-bit capable. What do you do in that case?
> > 
> > Do you mean if CPUs 0-3 were 32bit capable and we boot with maxcpus=4 then
> > attempt to bring the remaining 64bit-only cpus online later?
> 
> Right. I think we will refuse to online them. I'll post my attempt at
> handling that shortly.

Sorry for the delayed response.

You're right, I tried that and they refuse to come online. We missed that tbh.

Haven't thought what we should do yet. I tried your v2 and it failed similarly.

I usually have a similar hunk in my testing to check how the kernel perceives
the 32bit support when I execute a binary:

	diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
	index f447d313a9c5..a9549e55a6c8 100644
	--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
	+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
	@@ -611,6 +611,9 @@ static inline bool system_supports_32bit_el0(void)
	 {
		u64 pfr0 = read_sanitised_ftr_reg(SYS_ID_AA64PFR0_EL1);

	+       pr_err("System supports symmetric 32bit el0: %d\n", id_aa64pfr0_32bit_el0(pfr0));
	+       pr_err("System supports Asymmetric 32bit el0: %ld\n", static_branch_unlikely(&arm64_mismatched_32bit_el0));
	+
		return id_aa64pfr0_32bit_el0(pfr0) ||
		       static_branch_unlikely(&arm64_mismatched_32bit_el0);
	 }

In your v2 both conditions are true. In my series we see the system as
symmetric if we boot the 32bit capable cpus _only_.

> > Haven't tried that tbh. What symptoms do you expect to see? I can try it out.
> > I'm off for the remainder of the day, but can spend few mins to run an
> > experiment for sure.
> 
> No probs; I've been taking Friday afternoons off to burn holiday anyway, so
> you didn't miss anything!

:-)

Thanks

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Qais Yousef