[RFC/PATCH] arm: do not skip SMP init calls on SMP_ON_UP case

From: nyushchenko
Date: Mon Nov 23 2015 - 06:59:15 EST


From: Nikita Yushchenko <nyushchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

While running an imx6s boasrd, I got following message in boot log:

[ 0.032414] CPU1: failed to boot: -38

This looked strange: imx6s is singe-core and kernel perfectly knows
that. However, for some reason it tries to initialize CPU 1?

I found this to be caused by
- CONFIG_SMP_ON_UP successfully detects that system is single core,
- this causes is_smp() to return false,
- this causes setup_arch() to skip smp_init_cpus() call,
- this skips board-specific code that sets cpu_possible mask.

By looking at the code, I don't understand why several initialization
routines are called only in is_smp() case - while other kernel
CONFIG_SMP code does not check is_smp() every time and uses what should
have been initialized by skipped routines.

Thus I propose making these init calls regardless of is_smp() check.
Calls are already conditional on CONFIG_SMP. This will make init and
usage sides consistent.

Signed-off-by: Nikita Yushchenko <nyushchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/kernel/setup.c | 16 +++++++---------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
index 20edd34..8a14fce 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
@@ -980,16 +980,14 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
psci_dt_init();
xen_early_init();
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
- if (is_smp()) {
- if (!mdesc->smp_init || !mdesc->smp_init()) {
- if (psci_smp_available())
- smp_set_ops(&psci_smp_ops);
- else if (mdesc->smp)
- smp_set_ops(mdesc->smp);
- }
- smp_init_cpus();
- smp_build_mpidr_hash();
+ if (!mdesc->smp_init || !mdesc->smp_init()) {
+ if (psci_smp_available())
+ smp_set_ops(&psci_smp_ops);
+ else if (mdesc->smp)
+ smp_set_ops(mdesc->smp);
}
+ smp_init_cpus();
+ smp_build_mpidr_hash();
#endif

if (!is_smp())
--
2.1.4

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