Re: [PATCH v9 00/12] Sunxi: Add SMP support on A83T

[MylÃne Josserand]

Hello,

Please, excuse my late answer.

On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:53:35 +0200
OndÅej Jirman <doudahwezomiechahtah@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello MylÃne,
> 
> On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 09:05:33PM +0200, MylÃne Josserand wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > This is a V9 of my series that adds SMP support for Allwinner sun8i-a83t.
> > Based on sunxi's tree, sunxi/for-next branch.
> > Depends on a patch from Doug Berger that allows to include the "cpu-type"
> > header on assembly files that I included in my series (patch 01).  
> 
> I've tested your patches and the kernel always locks up when disabling the first
> CPU in the second cluster. I can enable/disable other CPUs in the second cluster
> though.

Thank you for testing it.
Indeed, I tested it and I can also reproduce the issue with CPU4. I
will have a look but I suspect it is the same behavior that we have with CPU0.

> 
> Other thing I observed was, that when disabling cores no power is saved (not
> even a tiny bit), which is slightly surprising.
> 
> From the standpoint of the DT, A83T CPU config seems to lack some cpu
> properties, which makes it not claim a cluster clock when I enable any other
> CPU than the first CPU in the cluster.

Indeed. If I have time, I will look at it but I would like to focus on
the CPU0 hotplug.

> 
> The same goes for cpu-supply regulator. When I dump the state of regulators
> after booting with maxcpus=1 and enabling cpu5, the regulator on the second
> cluster is not claimed, but when I add cpu-supply property on all cpu# nodes,
> I get (when enabling CPU5):
> 
> [  200.072895] CPU5: update cpu_capacity 1024
> [  200.072914] CPU5: thread -1, cpu 1, socket 1, mpidr 80000101
> [  200.151403] cpu cpu5: opp_list_debug_create_link: Failed to create link
> [  200.151411] cpu cpu5: _add_opp_dev: Failed to register opp debugfs (-12)

Okay. Which board are you using? In my case, I did not need
regulators. And, maybe, you investigated on it already?

> 
> I'm not having much luck with this. Do you have some suggestions, please?
> I'll probably figure out the last issue with the regulators, but I'm at the
> loss about the lockup on CPU4 disable.

I will have a look in next weeks on hotplug of CPU0. I guess (and
hope) that it will fix the issue with CPU4.

Thanks,
Best regards,

MylÃne

> 
> thaks and regards,
>   Ondrej Jirman
> 
> > The difference with the v8 is just that the machine is renamed in sun8i-a83t
> > (see patch 07), according to Maxime's review.
> > 
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Best regards,
> > MylÃne
> > 
> > Changes from v8:
> >     - Rename machine into "sun8i-a83t"
> > 
> > Changes from v7:
> >     - Add the patch of Doug Berger in my series.
> >     - Rename the machine name to start secure_cntvoff into "sun8i-a83t",
> >     according to Maxime's review.
> >     - Change the type of is_a83t field from integer into boolean.
> > 
> > Changes from v6:
> >     - Correct the commit log on patch 07 according to Sergei Shtylyov's
> >     review.
> >     - Rename the field "is_sun8i" into "is_a83t".
> >     - Add all Tested-by and Reviewed-by from previous version.
> > 
> > Changes from v5:
> >     - Remove my patch 01 and use the patch of Doug Berger to be able to
> >     include the cpu-type header on assembly files.
> >     - Rename smp_init_cntvoff function into secure_cntvoff_init according
> >     to Marc Zyngier's review.
> >     - According to Chen-Yu and Maxime's reviews, remove the patch that was
> >     moving structures. Instead of using an index to retrieve which
> >     architecture we are having, use a global variable.
> >     - Merge the 2 patches that move assembly code from C to assembly file.
> >     - Use a sun8i field instead of sun9i to know on which architecture we
> >     are using because many modifications/additions of the code are for
> >     sun8i-a83t.
> >     - Rework the patch "add is_sun8i field" to add only this field in this
> >     patch. The part of the patch that was starting to handle the differences
> >     between sun8i-a83t and sun9i-a80 is merged in the patch that adds the
> >     support of sun8i-a83t.
> >     - Add a new patch that refactor the shmobile code to use the new function
> >     secure_cntvoff_init introduced in this series.
> > 
> > Changes from v4:
> >     - Rebased my series according to new Chen-Yu series:
> >        "ARM: sunxi: Clean and improvements for multi-cluster SMP"
> >        https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/8/886
> >     - Updated my series according to Marc Zyngier's reviews to add CNTVOFF
> >     initialization's function into ARM's common part. Thanks to that, other
> >     platforms such as Renesa can use this function.
> >     - For boot CPU, create a new machine to handle the CNTVOFF initialization
> >     using "init_early" callback.
> > 
> > Changes from v3:
> >     - Take into account Maxime's reviews:
> > 	- split the first patch into 4 new patches: add sun9i device tree
> > 	parsing, rename some variables, add a83t support and finally,
> > 	add hotplug support.
> > 	- Move the code of previous patch 07 (to disable CPU0 disabling)
> > 	into hotplug support patch (see patch 04)
> > 	- Remove the patch that added PRCM register because it is already
> > 	available. Because of that, update the device tree parsing to use
> > 	"sun8i-a83t-r-ccu".
> > 	- Use a variable to know which SoC we currently have
> >     - Take into account Chen-Yu's reviews: create two iounmap functions
> >     to release the resources of the device tree parsing.
> >     - Take into account Marc's review: Update the code to initialize CNTVOFF
> >     register. As there is already assembly code in the driver, I decided
> >     to create an assembly file not to mix assembly and C code.
> >     For that, I create 3 new patches: move the current assembly code that
> >     handles the cluster cache enabling into a file, move the cpu_resume entry
> >     in this file and finally, add a new assembly entry to initialize the timer
> >     offset for boot CPU and secondary CPUs.
> > 
> > Changes from v2:
> >     - Rebased my modifications according to new Chen Yu's patch series
> >     that adds SMP support for sun9i-a80 (without MCPM).
> >     - Split the device-tree patches into 3 patches for CPUCFG, R_CPUCFG
> >     and PRCM registers for more visibility.
> >     - The hotplug of CPU0 is currently not working (even after trying what
> >     Allwinner's code is doing) so remove the possibility of disabling
> >     this CPU. Created a new patch for it.
> > 
> > Changes from v1:
> >     - Add Chen Yu's patch in my series (see path 01)
> >     - Add new compatibles for prcm and cpucfg registers for sun8i-a83t.
> >     Create two functions to separate the DT parsing of sun9i-a80 and
> >     sun8i-a83t.
> >     - Thanks to Maxime's review: order device tree's nodes according
> >     to physical addresses, remove unused label and fix registers' sizes.
> >     Update the commit log and commit title of my last patch (see
> >     patch 05).
> > 
> > Doug Berger (1):
> >   ARM: Allow this header to be included by assembly files
> > 
> > MylÃne Josserand (11):
> >   ARM: sunxi: smp: Move assembly code into a file
> >   ARM: dts: sun8i: Add CPUCFG device node for A83T dtsi
> >   ARM: dts: sun8i: Add R_CPUCFG device node for the A83T dtsi
> >   ARM: dts: sun8i: a83t: Add CCI-400 node
> >   ARM: smp: Add initialization of CNTVOFF
> >   ARM: sunxi: Add initialization of CNTVOFF
> >   ARM: sun9i: smp: Rename clusters's power-off
> >   ARM: sun9i: smp: Add is_a83t field
> >   ARM: sun8i: smp: Add support for A83T
> >   ARM: dts: sun8i: Add enable-method for SMP support for the A83T SoC
> >   ARM: shmobile: Convert file to use cntvoff
> > 
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-a83t.dtsi        |  59 ++++++++
> >  arch/arm/common/Makefile                 |   1 +
> >  arch/arm/common/secure_cntvoff.S         |  31 ++++
> >  arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h           |  10 +-
> >  arch/arm/include/asm/secure_cntvoff.h    |   8 ++
> >  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/common.h          |   1 -
> >  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/headsmp-apmu.S    |  22 +--
> >  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-rcar-gen2.c |   3 +-
> >  arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig              |   2 +-
> >  arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Makefile             |   2 +-
> >  arch/arm/mach-sunxi/headsmp.S            |  81 +++++++++++
> >  arch/arm/mach-sunxi/mc_smp.c             | 239 +++++++++++++++++++------------
> >  arch/arm/mach-sunxi/sunxi.c              |  20 ++-
> >  13 files changed, 356 insertions(+), 123 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/common/secure_cntvoff.S
> >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/secure_cntvoff.h
> >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-sunxi/headsmp.S
> > 
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