From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754388AbdEIStI (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2017 14:49:08 -0400 Received: from mx08-00252a01.pphosted.com ([91.207.212.211]:60293 "EHLO mx08-00252a01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754282AbdEIStF (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2017 14:49:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] irq_bcm2836: Send event when onlining sleeping cores To: Marc Zyngier , Eric Anholt , Thomas Gleixner , Jason Cooper , Florian Fainelli , Ray Jui , Scott Branden , bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org References: <87ziemm0fb.fsf@eliezer.anholt.net> <1e871525-3298-f16d-4f95-a44bc78068b5@arm.com> <87o9v1c37r.fsf@eliezer.anholt.net> <7f6f5e05-07b1-e64d-401c-a189623c22a0@arm.com> From: Phil Elwell Message-ID: <3b9a0ec6-fc9e-5cd0-e40a-e91b5926f53e@raspberrypi.org> Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 19:52:08 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7f6f5e05-07b1-e64d-401c-a189623c22a0@arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2017-05-09_15:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_spam_notspam policy=outbound_spam score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 impostorscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1703280000 definitions=main-1705090104 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/05/2017 19:14, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On 09/05/17 19:08, Eric Anholt wrote: >> Marc Zyngier writes: >> >>> On 09/05/17 17:59, Eric Anholt wrote: >>>> Phil Elwell writes: >>>> >>>>> In order to reduce power consumption and bus traffic, it is sensible >>>>> for secondary cores to enter a low-power idle state when waiting to >>>>> be started. The wfe instruction causes a core to wait until an event >>>>> or interrupt arrives before continuing to the next instruction. >>>>> The sev instruction sends a wakeup event to the other cores, so call >>>>> it from bcm2836_smp_boot_secondary, the function that wakes up the >>>>> waiting cores during booting. >>>>> >>>>> It is harmless to use this patch without the corresponding change >>>>> adding wfe to the ARMv7/ARMv8-32 stubs, but if the stubs are updated >>>>> and this patch is not applied then the other cores will sleep forever. >>>>> >>>>> See: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1989 >>>>> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell >>>>> --- >>>>> drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm2836.c | 3 +++ >>>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) >>>>> >>>>> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm2836.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm2836.c >>>>> index e10597c..6dccdf9 100644 >>>>> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm2836.c >>>>> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm2836.c >>>>> @@ -248,6 +248,9 @@ static int __init bcm2836_smp_boot_secondary(unsigned int cpu, >>>>> writel(secondary_startup_phys, >>>>> intc.base + LOCAL_MAILBOX3_SET0 + 16 * cpu); >>>>> >>>>> + dsb(sy); /* Ensure write has completed before waking the other CPUs */ >>>>> + sev(); >>>>> + >>>>> return 0; >>>>> } >>>> >>>> This is also the behavior that the standard arm64 spin-table method has, >>>> which we unfortunately can't quite use. >>> >>> And why is that so? Why do you have to reinvent the wheel (and hide the >>> cloned wheel in an interrupt controller driver)? >>> >>> That doesn't seem right to me. >> >> The armv8 stubs (firmware-supplied code in the low page that do the >> spinning) do actually implement arm64's spin-table method. It's the >> armv7 stubs that use these registers in the irqchip instead of plain >> addresses in system memory. > > Let's put ARMv7 aside for the time being. If your firmware already > implements spin-tables, why don't you simply use that at least on arm64? We do.