[PATCH RFC v4 12/15] arm64: psci: Ignore DENIED CPUs

Russell King (Oracle) rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk
Wed Jan 31 08:50:38 PST 2024


From: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe at linaro.org>

When a CPU is marked as disabled, but online capable in the MADT, PSCI
applies some firmware policy to control when it can be brought online.
PSCI returns DENIED to a CPU_ON request if this is not currently
permitted. The OS can learn the current policy from the _STA enabled bit.

Handle the PSCI DENIED return code gracefully instead of printing an
error.

See https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0022/f/?lang=en page 58.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe at linaro.org>
[ morse: Rewrote commit message ]
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
Tested-by: Miguel Luis <miguel.luis at oracle.com>
Tested-by: Vishnu Pajjuri <vishnu at os.amperecomputing.com>
Tested-by: Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron at huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
---
Changes since RFC v2
 * Add specification reference
 * Use EPERM rather than EPROBE_DEFER
Changes since RFC v3:
 * Use EPERM everywhere
 * Drop unnecessary changes to drivers/firmware/psci/psci.c
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c | 2 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c  | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c
index 29a8e444db83..fabd732d0a2d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ static int cpu_psci_cpu_boot(unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	phys_addr_t pa_secondary_entry = __pa_symbol(secondary_entry);
 	int err = psci_ops.cpu_on(cpu_logical_map(cpu), pa_secondary_entry);
-	if (err)
+	if (err && err != -EPERM)
 		pr_err("failed to boot CPU%d (%d)\n", cpu, err);
 
 	return err;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
index 4ced34f62dab..dc0e0b3ec2d4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
@@ -132,7 +132,8 @@ int __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
 	/* Now bring the CPU into our world */
 	ret = boot_secondary(cpu, idle);
 	if (ret) {
-		pr_err("CPU%u: failed to boot: %d\n", cpu, ret);
+		if (ret != -EPERM)
+			pr_err("CPU%u: failed to boot: %d\n", cpu, ret);
 		return ret;
 	}
 
-- 
2.30.2




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