[PATCH v3 04/12] arm64: smp: Tidy up cpuinfo init and cpufeature updates

Jinjie Ruan ruanjinjie at huawei.com
Wed Jun 24 02:25:29 PDT 2026


From: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>

Populating the 'cpuinfo_arm64' structure during CPU bringup and
subsequently checking/updating cpufeature structures is slightly
convoluted and differs unnecessarily between the boot CPU and secondary
CPUs.

Rework the code so that cpuinfo_store_cpu() is used to populate the
'cpuinfo_arm64' structure for each CPU, with secondary CPUs then calling
update_cpu_features() to update the global view of the available
features. This allows us to internalise the 'boot_cpu_data' in
cpufeature.c and paves the way for parallelising the ID register probing
during bring-up of secondary CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie at huawei.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/cpu.h   |  6 ++----
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c    | 11 -----------
 arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c        |  3 ++-
 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpu.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpu.h
index 71493b760b83..b77af3b1bde6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpu.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpu.h
@@ -73,10 +73,8 @@ struct cpuinfo_arm64 {
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct cpuinfo_arm64, cpu_data);
 
 void cpuinfo_store_cpu(void);
-void __init cpuinfo_store_boot_cpu(void);
 
-void __init init_cpu_features(struct cpuinfo_arm64 *info);
-void update_cpu_features(int cpu, struct cpuinfo_arm64 *info,
-				 struct cpuinfo_arm64 *boot);
+void __init init_cpu_features(void);
+void update_cpu_features(int cpu);
 
 #endif /* __ASM_CPU_H */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 6d53bb15cf7b..be75e60d56ca 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(system_cpucaps);
 static struct arm64_cpu_capabilities const __ro_after_init *cpucap_ptrs[ARM64_NCAPS];
 
 DECLARE_BITMAP(boot_cpucaps, ARM64_NCAPS);
+static struct cpuinfo_arm64 boot_cpu_data;
 
 /*
  * arm64_use_ng_mappings must be placed in the .data section, otherwise it
@@ -1164,11 +1165,19 @@ static __init void detect_system_supports_pseudo_nmi(void)
 static inline void detect_system_supports_pseudo_nmi(void) { }
 #endif
 
-void __init init_cpu_features(struct cpuinfo_arm64 *info)
+void __init init_cpu_features(void)
 {
+	struct cpuinfo_arm64 *info = &per_cpu(cpu_data, 0);
+
 	/* Before we start using the tables, make sure it is sorted */
 	sort_ftr_regs();
 
+	/*
+	 * We keep a copy of the boot CPU registers so that physical hotplug
+	 * of CPU 0 can still be properly checked.
+	 */
+	boot_cpu_data = *info;
+
 	init_cpu_ftr_reg(SYS_CTR_EL0, info->reg_ctr);
 	init_cpu_ftr_reg(SYS_DCZID_EL0, info->reg_dczid);
 	init_cpu_ftr_reg(SYS_CNTFRQ_EL0, info->reg_cntfrq);
@@ -1363,12 +1372,14 @@ static int update_32bit_cpu_features(int cpu, struct cpuinfo_32bit *info,
  * non-boot CPU. Also performs SANITY checks to make sure that there
  * aren't any insane variations from that of the boot CPU.
  */
-void update_cpu_features(int cpu,
-			 struct cpuinfo_arm64 *info,
-			 struct cpuinfo_arm64 *boot)
+void update_cpu_features(int cpu)
 {
+	struct cpuinfo_arm64 *boot, *info;
 	int taint = 0;
 
+	boot = &boot_cpu_data;
+	info = per_cpu_ptr(&cpu_data, cpu);
+
 	/*
 	 * The kernel can handle differing I-cache policies, but otherwise
 	 * caches should look identical. Userspace JITs will make use of
@@ -3924,6 +3935,8 @@ static void __init setup_boot_cpu_capabilities(void)
 
 void __init setup_boot_cpu_features(void)
 {
+	init_cpu_features();
+
 	/*
 	 * Initialize the indirect array of CPU capabilities pointers before we
 	 * handle the boot CPU.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c
index 6149bc91251d..df740dc478b2 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
  * values depending on configuration at or after reset.
  */
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpuinfo_arm64, cpu_data);
-static struct cpuinfo_arm64 boot_cpu_data;
 
 static inline const char *icache_policy_str(int l1ip)
 {
@@ -523,14 +522,4 @@ void cpuinfo_store_cpu(void)
 {
 	struct cpuinfo_arm64 *info = this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_data);
 	__cpuinfo_store_cpu(info);
-	update_cpu_features(smp_processor_id(), info, &boot_cpu_data);
-}
-
-void __init cpuinfo_store_boot_cpu(void)
-{
-	struct cpuinfo_arm64 *info = &per_cpu(cpu_data, 0);
-	__cpuinfo_store_cpu(info);
-
-	boot_cpu_data = *info;
-	init_cpu_features(&boot_cpu_data);
 }
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
index e858d7d64d1f..c14b179c595d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ asmlinkage notrace void secondary_start_kernel(void)
 	 * Log the CPU info before it is marked online and might get read.
 	 */
 	cpuinfo_store_cpu();
+	update_cpu_features(cpu);
 	store_cpu_topology(cpu);
 
 	/*
@@ -453,7 +454,7 @@ void __init smp_prepare_boot_cpu(void)
 	 */
 	set_my_cpu_offset(per_cpu_offset(smp_processor_id()));
 
-	cpuinfo_store_boot_cpu();
+	cpuinfo_store_cpu();
 	setup_boot_cpu_features();
 
 	/* Conditionally switch to GIC PMR for interrupt masking */
-- 
2.34.1




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