[PATCH] ARM: omap2+: Revert omap-smp.c changes resetting CPU1 during boot

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Tue Mar 14 11:14:26 PDT 2017


* Andrew F. Davis <afd at ti.com> [170314 10:59]:
> On 03/14/2017 11:41 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Andrew F. Davis <afd at ti.com> [170314 09:04]:
> >> On 03/14/2017 10:17 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> >>> And if the CPU1 start-up address is programmed to be in the currently
> >>> booting kernel's area by something else, it's almost certainly totally
> >>> broken.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I disagree, the core can be parked correctly and still have the boot-to
> >> address point to anywhere. There are two registers in play here, one
> >> sets the target jump-to address, the other lets it out of the parking
> >> loop. To know we are not parked we need to check the parking release
> >> register, the jump-to address is completely irrelevant as a check for
> >> proper parking.
> > 
> > Well at this point we have CPU1 parked and configured for a wrong
> > start-up address. So the boot-to address is a valid check. I can
> > certainly add a check for CPU1 being parked too.

OK I sent out v3 version of the patch doing that. Can you please
review and test that one?

<snip>

Then onto the other related patches..

> We re-park cpu1 in bootROM in U-Boot already, in the U-Boot tree:
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap5/sec_entry_cpu1.S

OK good to hear.

> omap_smc_sec_cpu1() wakes up cpu1 into the function cpu1_entry(), this
> makes an SMC call to setup the core, then re-parks itself back in bootROM.
> Relevant code to run on cpu1:
> 
> > #define AUX_CORE_BOOT_0		0x48281800
> > #define AUX_CORE_BOOT_1		0x48281804
> > /* DRA7xx ROM code function "startup_BootSlave". This function is where CPU1
> >  * waits on WFE, polling on AUX_CORE_BOOT_x registers.
> >  * This address is same for J6 and J6 Eco.
> >  */
> > #define ROM_FXN_STARTUP_BOOTSLAVE     0x00038a64
> >
> > ldr	r4, =AUX_CORE_BOOT_0
> > mov	r5, #0x0
> > str	r5, [r4]
> > ldr	r4, =ROM_FXN_STARTUP_BOOTSLAVE
> > bx	r4	@ Jump back to ROM
> 
> We would have to do this in kernel. The issue I'm thinking we are going
> to hit is that the parking function in bootROM expects the MMU to be
> off. Although we don't really need to turn it off as long as we can
> identity map the bootROM area, the AUX_CORE_BOOT_0/1 space, and wherever
> we plan to exit the parking loop.

Would be good to hear what Russell thinks we should do here to park
CPU1.

Regards,

Tony



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