Re: [PATCH v3] [RFC] arm: use PSCI if available

From: Stefano Stabellini
Date: Wed Mar 27 2013 - 13:10:36 EST


On Wed, 27 Mar 2013, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 03/27/2013 11:23 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > Would you agree on a patch that moves virt_smp_ops out of mach-virt and
> > renames them to psci_smp_ops (maybe to arch/arm/kernel/psci_smp_ops.c)?
> >
> > Would you agree on initializing psci from setup_arch, right after the
> > call to arm_dt_init_cpu_maps()?
> >
> > Finally the most controversial point: would you agree on using
> > psci_smp_ops by default if they are available?
> > If not, would you at least agree on letting Xen overwrite the default
> > machine smp_ops?
> > We need one or the other for dom0 support.
>
> It should not be *always* use PSCI smp ops if available, but use them
> only if the platform does not define its own smp ops.

Well, that is the one additional problem that we have on Xen.

On x86 Xen replaces a lot of core native function calls with its own
implementations (see paravirt_ops).
On ARM we only need *one* set of calls: the smp_ops calls.

So if we don't want to give priority to PSCI over the platform smp_ops,
then we need a simple workaround just for Xen in common code like the
one appended below.
Not pretty, but at least small:

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
index 3f6cbb2..08cf7e0 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
#include <asm/cachetype.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
+#include <xen/xen.h>
+#include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h>

#include <asm/prom.h>
#include <asm/mach/arch.h>
@@ -766,9 +768,13 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
unflatten_device_tree();

arm_dt_init_cpu_maps();
+ xen_early_init();
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
if (is_smp()) {
- smp_set_ops(mdesc->smp);
+ if (xen_domain())
+ smp_set_ops(&xen_smp_ops);
+ else
+ smp_set_ops(mdesc->smp);
smp_init_cpus();
}
#endif
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