[PATCH] RISC-V: Probe misaligned access speed in parallel

[Evan Green]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 11:49 AM Evan Green <evan at rivosinc.com> wrote:
>
> Probing for misaligned access speed takes about 0.06 seconds. On a
> system with 64 cores, doing this in smp_callin() means it's done
> serially, extending boot time by 3.8 seconds. That's a lot of boot time.
>
> Instead of measuring each CPU serially, let's do the measurements on
> all CPUs in parallel. If we disable preemption on all CPUs, the
> jiffies stop ticking, so we can do this in stages of 1) everybody
> except core 0, then 2) core 0.
>
> The measurement call in smp_callin() stays around, but is now
> conditionalized to only run if a new CPU shows up after the round of
> in-parallel measurements has run. The goal is to have the measurement
> call not run during boot or suspend/resume, but only on a hotplug
> addition.
>
> Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evan at rivosinc.com>

Shoot, I saw the other thread [1] where it seems like my use of
alloc_pages() in this context is improper? I had thought I was
alright, as Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst says:

 > If the allocation is performed from an atomic context, e.g interrupt
 > handler, use ``GFP_NOWAIT``.

Any tips for reproducing that splat? I have CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
on (it's in the defconfig), and lockdep, and I'm on Conor's
linux-6.6.y-rt, but so far I'm not seeing it.

-Evan

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/ZUPWc7sY47l34lV+@xhacker/T/#t