[PATCH v3] generic: mips: support harts to boot from mips_warm_boot

Chao-ying Fu icebergfu at gmail.com
Wed Jul 23 13:40:10 PDT 2025


We program reset base for harts (other than hart 0) to boot at
mips_warm_boot that jumps to _start_warm. This helps to skip some code
sequence to speed up.

Signed-off-by: Chao-ying Fu <cfu at mips.com>
---
 platform/generic/mips/mips_warm_boot.S | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 platform/generic/mips/objects.mk       |  2 +-
 platform/generic/mips/p8700.c          |  5 +++++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 platform/generic/mips/mips_warm_boot.S

diff --git a/platform/generic/mips/mips_warm_boot.S b/platform/generic/mips/mips_warm_boot.S
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..25cdb83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/platform/generic/mips/mips_warm_boot.S
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2025 MIPS
+ *
+ */
+	.text
+	.align	12
+	.globl	mips_warm_boot
+mips_warm_boot:
+	j	_start_warm
+	.align	2
+nmi_vector:
+	j	_start_warm
+	.align	2
+cacheerr_vector:
+	j	_start_warm
+	.align	2
+debugexc_vector:
+	j	_start_warm
diff --git a/platform/generic/mips/objects.mk b/platform/generic/mips/objects.mk
index bbbc15a..a08c4c6 100644
--- a/platform/generic/mips/objects.mk
+++ b/platform/generic/mips/objects.mk
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@
 
 ifeq ($(PLATFORM_RISCV_XLEN), 64)
 carray-platform_override_modules-$(CONFIG_PLATFORM_MIPS_P8700) += mips_p8700
-platform-objs-$(CONFIG_PLATFORM_MIPS_P8700) += mips/p8700.o
+platform-objs-$(CONFIG_PLATFORM_MIPS_P8700) += mips/p8700.o mips/mips_warm_boot.o
 endif
diff --git a/platform/generic/mips/p8700.c b/platform/generic/mips/p8700.c
index 888a45c..d3e015b 100644
--- a/platform/generic/mips/p8700.c
+++ b/platform/generic/mips/p8700.c
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 #include <mips/p8700.h>
 #include <mips/mips-cm.h>
 
+extern void mips_warm_boot(void);
+
 static unsigned long mips_csr_read_num(int csr_num)
 {
 #define switchcase_csr_read(__csr_num, __val)		\
@@ -150,6 +152,9 @@ static int mips_hart_start(u32 hartid, ulong saddr)
 	if (hartid == 0)
 		return SBI_ENOTSUPP;
 
+	/* Change reset base to mips_warm_boot */
+	write_gcr_co_reset_base(hartid, (unsigned long)mips_warm_boot, local_p);
+
 	if (cpu_hart(hartid) == 0) {
 		/* Ensure its coherency is disabled */
 		write_gcr_co_coherence(hartid, 0, local_p);
-- 
2.47.1




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