There is a subtle race in the CPU hotplug code, where a CPU which has
been offlined can online itself before being requested, which results
in things going astray on the next online/offline cycle.
What happens in the normal online/offline/online cycle is:
CPU0 CPU3
requests boot of CPU3
pen_release = 3
flush cache line
checks pen_release, reads 3
starts boot
pen_release = -1
... requests CPU3 offline ...
... dies ...
checks pen_release, reads -1
requests boot of CPU3
pen_release = 3
flush cache line
checks pen_release, reads 3
starts boot
pen_release = -1
However, as the write of -1 of pen_release is not fully flushed back to
memory, and the checking of pen_release is done with caches disabled,
this allows CPU3 the opportunity to read the old value of pen_release:
CPU0 CPU3
requests boot of CPU3
pen_release = 3
flush cache line
checks pen_release, reads 3
starts boot
pen_release = -1
... requests CPU3 offline ...
... dies ...
checks pen_release, reads 3
starts boot
pen_release = -1
requests boot of CPU3
pen_release = 3
flush cache line
Fix this by grouping the write of pen_release along with its cache line
flushing code to ensure that any update to pen_release is always pushed
out to physical memory.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
All platforms call trace_hardirqs_off() in their secondary startup code,
so move this into the core SMP code - it doesn't need to be in the
per-platform code.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
There is a certain amount of smp_prepare_cpus() which doesn't belong
in the platform support code - that is, code which is invariant to the
SMP implementation. Move this code into arch/arm/kernel/smp.c, and
add a platform_ prefix to the original function.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
scu_get_core_count() never returns zero cores, so we don't need to
check and correct if ncores is zero.
Tegra was missing the check against NR_CPUS, leading to a potential
bitfield overflow if this becomes the case.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This allows us to use smp_cross_call() to trigger a number of different
software generated interrupts, rather than combining them all on one
SGI. Recover the SGI number via do_IPI.
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
