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MIPS: CPS: Handle spurious VP starts more gracefully 

On pre-r6 systems with the MT ASE the CPS SMP code included checks to
halt the VPE running mips_cps_boot_vpes() if its bit in the struct
core_boot_config vpe_mask field is clear. This was largely done in order
to allow us to start arbitrary VPEs within a core despite the fact that
hardware is typically configured to run only VPE0 after powering up a
core. VPE0 would start the desired other VPEs, halt itself, and the fact
that VPE0 started would be largely hidden & irrelevant.

In MIPSr6 multithreading we have control over which VPs start executing
when a core powers up via the cores CPC registers accessed remotely
through the redirect block. For this reason the MIPSr6 multithreading
path in mips_cps_boot_vpes() hasn't bothered up until now to handle
halting the VP running it.

However it is possible to power up cores entirely in hardware by using a
pwr_up pin associated with the core. Unfortunately some systems wire
this pin to a logic 1, which means that it is possible for a core to
power up at a point that software doesn't expect. The result is that we
generally go execute the kernel on a CPU that ought not to be running &
the results can be unpredictable.

Handle this case by stopping VPs that we don't expect to be running in
mips_cps_boot_vpes() - with this change even if a core powers up it will
do nothing useful & all VPs within it will stop running before they
proceed to run general kernel code & do any damage. Ideally we would
produce some sort of warning here, but given the stage of core bringup
this happens at that would be non-trivial. We also will only hit this if
a core starts up after being offlined via hotplug, and when that happens
we will already produce a warning that the CPU didn't power down in
cps_cpu_die() which seems sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16198/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Paul Burton 2017-06-02 14:48:55 -07:00 committed by Ralf Baechle
parent 4ad755c9e3
commit fa7a3b4a72
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@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#define GCR_CL_COHERENCE_OFS 0x2008
#define GCR_CL_ID_OFS 0x2028
#define CPC_CL_VC_STOP_OFS 0x2020
#define CPC_CL_VC_RUN_OFS 0x2028
.extern mips_cm_base
@ -376,8 +377,12 @@ LEAF(mips_cps_boot_vpes)
PTR_LI t2, UNCAC_BASE
PTR_ADD t1, t1, t2
/* Set VC_RUN to the VPE mask */
/* Start any other VPs that ought to be running */
PTR_S ta2, CPC_CL_VC_RUN_OFS(t1)
/* Ensure this VP stops running if it shouldn't be */
not ta2
PTR_S ta2, CPC_CL_VC_STOP_OFS(t1)
ehb
#elif defined(CONFIG_MIPS_MT)