From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
To: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Dmitry Baryshkov <lumag@kernel.org>,
Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@kernel.org>
Cc: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>,
Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>,
Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>,
Radu Rendec <rrendec@redhat.com>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Clark Williams <clrkwllms@kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] ARM: topology: allocate the cacheinfo early on the boot CPU
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:55:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260912195552.76673-5-kmehltretter@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260912195552.76673-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com>
ARM secondary CPUs allocate cacheinfo in detect_cache_attributes(),
called from secondary_start_kernel() with interrupts disabled. With
PREEMPT_RT, the allocation takes a sleeping lock and triggers
"BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context".
Call fetch_cache_info() for each possible CPU from init_cpu_topology()
on the boot CPU, following commit 5944ce092b97 ("arch_topology: Build
cacheinfo from primary CPU"). This supplies the arrays before secondary
CPUs populate them. Suppress -ENOENT and -EOPNOTSUPP, which leave cache
detection to the existing late path.
The CLIDR fallback uses the boot CPU's cache geometry. A secondary CPU
with more cache leaves can still require late reallocation and trigger
the warning.
Fixes: a9ff94477836 ("ARM: 9433/2: implement cacheinfo support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
---
Full warning on QEMU virt, cortex-a15, 7.3-rc2, PREEMPT_RT:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/1
Call trace:
rt_spin_lock from ___slab_alloc+0x68/0x728
...
__kmalloc_noprof from detect_cache_attributes+0xe4/0x734
detect_cache_attributes from update_siblings_masks+0x10/0x174
update_siblings_masks from secondary_start_kernel+0xec/0x120
PREEMPT_RT became selectable on ARM in 7.1 with commit c6e61c06d606
("ARM: 9463/1: Allow to enable RT"). The PREEMPT_RT patch queues carry
that change for 6.18 and later, so 6.18.y is affected as well.
QEMU virt, cortex-a15, PREEMPT_RT, 2 and 4 CPUs: the warning is gone,
the cacheinfo sysfs tree is identical before and after, CPU 1 survives
an offline/online cycle. Same on a non-RT build.
QEMU realview-eb-mpcore, ARM11 MPCore, 4 CPUs, ARMv6 plus ARMv7 SMP
kernel with PREEMPT_RT: fetch_cache_info() returns -EOPNOTSUPP through
the CTR format check, no message, no cacheinfo before or after, CPU
hotplug works, kernel messages otherwise identical.
Raspberry Pi 400, four Cortex-A72 CPUs, 32-bit PREEMPT_RT 7.2.6-rc1,
full series: the boot warning is absent and all 12 cache sysfs entries
match the unpatched baseline and earlier topology-only run. The live
DT describes the shared L2, exercising DT-based early allocation.
CPU hotplug is unavailable on this platform.
arch/arm/kernel/topology.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
index 2336ee2aa44a..e6b50cd43ce5 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
*/
#include <linux/arch_topology.h>
+#include <linux/cacheinfo.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/cpufreq.h>
#include <linux/cpumask.h>
@@ -238,8 +239,20 @@ void store_cpu_topology(unsigned int cpuid)
*/
void __init init_cpu_topology(void)
{
+ int cpu, ret;
+
reset_cpu_topology();
smp_wmb();
parse_dt_topology();
+
+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+ ret = fetch_cache_info(cpu);
+ if (!ret)
+ continue;
+ /* CPUs without a usable CLIDR return -EOPNOTSUPP. */
+ if (ret != -ENOENT && ret != -EOPNOTSUPP)
+ pr_err("Early cacheinfo failed, ret = %d\n", ret);
+ return;
+ }
}
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-12 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-12 19:55 [PATCH 0/4] ARM: allocate the cacheinfo early to fix the PREEMPT_RT boot warning Karl Mehltretter
2026-09-12 19:55 ` [PATCH 1/4] ARM: cacheinfo: avoid out-of-bounds write in populate_cache_leaves() Karl Mehltretter
2026-09-12 19:55 ` [PATCH 2/4] ARM: cacheinfo: count external caches in early_cache_level() Karl Mehltretter
2026-09-12 20:09 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-12 19:55 ` [PATCH 3/4] ARM: cacheinfo: guard the CLIDR read in populate_cache_leaves() Karl Mehltretter
2026-09-12 19:55 ` Karl Mehltretter [this message]
2026-09-16 8:44 ` [PATCH 0/4] ARM: allocate the cacheinfo early to fix the PREEMPT_RT boot warning Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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