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authorSoby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>2015-04-08 17:42:06 +0100
committerAchin Gupta <achin.gupta@arm.com>2015-08-13 16:28:26 +0100
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PSCI: Introduce new platform interface to describe topology
This patch removes the assumption in the current PSCI implementation that MPIDR based affinity levels map directly to levels in a power domain tree. This enables PSCI generic code to support complex power domain topologies as envisaged by PSCIv1.0 specification. The platform interface for querying the power domain topology has been changed such that: 1. The generic PSCI code does not generate MPIDRs and use them to query the platform about the number of power domains at a particular power level. The platform now provides a description of the power domain tree on the SoC through a data structure. The existing platform APIs to provide the same information have been removed. 2. The linear indices returned by plat_core_pos_by_mpidr() and plat_my_core_pos() are used to retrieve core power domain nodes from the power domain tree. Power domains above the core level are accessed using a 'parent' field in the tree node descriptors. The platform describes the power domain tree in an array of 'unsigned char's. The first entry in the array specifies the number of power domains at the highest power level implemented in the system. Each susbsequent entry corresponds to a power domain and contains the number of power domains that are its direct children. This array is exported to the generic PSCI implementation via the new `plat_get_power_domain_tree_desc()` platform API. The PSCI generic code uses this array to populate its internal power domain tree using the Breadth First Search like algorithm. The tree is split into two arrays: 1. An array that contains all the core power domain nodes 2. An array that contains all the other power domain nodes A separate array for core nodes allows certain core specific optimisations to be implemented e.g. remove the bakery lock, re-use per-cpu data framework for storing some information. Entries in the core power domain array are allocated such that the array index of the domain is equal to the linear index returned by plat_core_pos_by_mpidr() and plat_my_core_pos() for the MPIDR corresponding to that domain. This relationship is key to be able to use an MPIDR to find the corresponding core power domain node, traverse to higher power domain nodes and index into arrays that contain core specific information. An introductory document has been added to briefly describe the new interface. Change-Id: I4b444719e8e927ba391cae48a23558308447da13
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+------------
+Requirements
+------------
+
+1. A platform must export the `plat_get_aff_count()` and
+ `plat_get_aff_state()` APIs to enable the generic PSCI code to
+ populate a tree that describes the hierarchy of power domains in the
+ system. This approach is inflexible because a change to the topology
+ requires a change in the code.
+
+ It would be much simpler for the platform to describe its power domain tree
+ in a data structure.
+
+2. The generic PSCI code generates MPIDRs in order to populate the power domain
+ tree. It also uses an MPIDR to find a node in the tree. The assumption that
+ a platform will use exactly the same MPIDRs as generated by the generic PSCI
+ code is not scalable. The use of an MPIDR also restricts the number of
+ levels in the power domain tree to four.
+
+ Therefore, there is a need to decouple allocation of MPIDRs from the
+ mechanism used to populate the power domain topology tree.
+
+3. The current arrangement of the power domain tree requires a binary search
+ over the sibling nodes at a particular level to find a specified power
+ domain node. During a power management operation, the tree is traversed from
+ a 'start' to an 'end' power level. The binary search is required to find the
+ node at each level. The natural way to perform this traversal is to
+ start from a leaf node and follow the parent node pointer to reach the end
+ level.
+
+ Therefore, there is a need to define data structures that implement the tree in
+ a way which facilitates such a traversal.
+
+4. The attributes of a core power domain differ from the attributes of power
+ domains at higher levels. For example, only a core power domain can be identified
+ using an MPIDR. There is no requirement to perform state coordination while
+ performing a power management operation on the core power domain.
+
+ Therefore, there is a need to implement the tree in a way which facilitates this
+ distinction between a leaf and non-leaf node and any associated
+ optimizations.
+
+
+------
+Design
+------
+
+### Describing a power domain tree
+
+To fulfill requirement 1., the existing platform APIs
+`plat_get_aff_count()` and `plat_get_aff_state()` have been
+removed. A platform must define an array of unsigned chars such that:
+
+1. The first entry in the array specifies the number of power domains at the
+ highest power level implemented in the platform. This caters for platforms
+ where the power domain tree does not have a single root node, for example,
+ the FVP has two cluster power domains at the highest level (1).
+
+2. Each subsequent entry corresponds to a power domain and contains the number
+ of power domains that are its direct children.
+
+3. The size of the array minus the first entry will be equal to the number of
+ non-leaf power domains.
+
+4. The value in each entry in the array is used to find the number of entries
+ to consider at the next level. The sum of the values (number of children) of
+ all the entries at a level specifies the number of entries in the array for
+ the next level.
+
+The following example power domain topology tree will be used to describe the
+above text further. The leaf and non-leaf nodes in this tree have been numbered
+separately.
+
+```
+ +-+
+ |0|
+ +-+
+ / \
+ / \
+ / \
+ / \
+ / \
+ / \
+ / \
+ / \
+ / \
+ / \
+ +-+ +-+
+ |1| |2|
+ +-+ +-+
+ / \ / \
+ / \ / \
+ / \ / \
+ / \ / \
+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+
+ |3| |4| |5| |6|
+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+
+ +---+-----+ +----+----| +----+----+ +----+-----+-----+
+ | | | | | | | | | | | | |
+ | | | | | | | | | | | | |
+ v v v v v v v v v v v v v
+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +--+ +--+ +--+
+ |0| |1| |2| |3| |4| |5| |6| |7| |8| |9| |10| |11| |12|
+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +--+ +--+ +--+
+```
+
+
+This tree is defined by the platform as the array described above as follows:
+
+```
+ #define PLAT_NUM_POWER_DOMAINS 20
+ #define PLATFORM_CORE_COUNT 13
+ #define PSCI_NUM_NON_CPU_PWR_DOMAINS \
+ (PLAT_NUM_POWER_DOMAINS - PLATFORM_CORE_COUNT)
+
+ unsigned char plat_power_domain_tree_desc[] = { 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4};
+```
+
+### Removing assumptions about MPIDRs used in a platform
+
+To fulfill requirement 2., it is assumed that the platform assigns a
+unique number (core index) between `0` and `PLAT_CORE_COUNT - 1` to each core
+power domain. MPIDRs could be allocated in any manner and will not be used to
+populate the tree.
+
+`plat_core_pos_by_mpidr(mpidr)` will return the core index for the core
+corresponding to the MPIDR. It will return an error (-1) if an MPIDR is passed
+which is not allocated or corresponds to an absent core. The semantics of this
+platform API have changed since it is required to validate the passed MPIDR. It
+has been made a mandatory API as a result.
+
+Another mandatory API, `plat_my_core_pos()` has been added to return the core
+index for the calling core. This API provides a more lightweight mechanism to get
+the index since there is no need to validate the MPIDR of the calling core.
+
+The platform should assign the core indices (as illustrated in the diagram above)
+such that, if the core nodes are numbered from left to right, then the index
+for a core domain will be the same as the index returned by
+ `plat_core_pos_by_mpidr()` or `plat_my_core_pos()` for that core. This
+relationship allows the core nodes to be allocated in a separate array
+(requirement 4.) during `psci_setup()` in such an order that the index of the
+core in the array is the same as the return value from these APIs.
+
+#### Dealing with holes in MPIDR allocation
+
+For platforms where the number of allocated MPIDRs is equal to the number of
+core power domains, for example, Juno and FVPs, the logic to convert an MPIDR to
+a core index should remain unchanged. Both Juno and FVP use a simple collision
+proof hash function to do this.
+
+It is possible that on some platforms, the allocation of MPIDRs is not
+contiguous or certain cores have been disabled. This essentially means that the
+MPIDRs have been sparsely allocated, that is, the size of the range of MPIDRs
+used by the platform is not equal to the number of core power domains.
+
+The platform could adopt one of the following approaches to deal with this
+scenario:
+
+1. Implement more complex logic to convert a valid MPIDR to a core index while
+ maintaining the relationship described earlier. This means that the power
+ domain tree descriptor will not describe any core power domains which are
+ disabled or absent. Entries will not be allocated in the tree for these
+ domains.
+
+2. Treat unallocated MPIDRs and disabled cores as absent but still describe them
+ in the power domain descriptor, that is, the number of core nodes described
+ is equal to the size of the range of MPIDRs allocated. This approach will
+ lead to memory wastage since entries will be allocated in the tree but will
+ allow use of a simpler logic to convert an MPIDR to a core index.
+
+
+### Traversing through and distinguishing between core and non-core power domains
+
+To fulfill requirement 3 and 4, separate data structures have been defined
+to represent leaf and non-leaf power domain nodes in the tree.
+
+```
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * The following two data structures implement the power domain tree. The tree
+ * is used to track the state of all the nodes i.e. power domain instances
+ * described by the platform. The tree consists of nodes that describe CPU power
+ * domains i.e. leaf nodes and all other power domains which are parents of a
+ * CPU power domain i.e. non-leaf nodes.
+ ******************************************************************************/
+typedef struct non_cpu_pwr_domain_node {
+ /*
+ * Index of the first CPU power domain node level 0 which has this node
+ * as its parent.
+ */
+ unsigned int cpu_start_idx;
+
+ /*
+ * Number of CPU power domains which are siblings of the domain indexed
+ * by 'cpu_start_idx' i.e. all the domains in the range 'cpu_start_idx
+ * -> cpu_start_idx + ncpus' have this node as their parent.
+ */
+ unsigned int ncpus;
+
+ /* Index of the parent power domain node */
+ unsigned int parent_node;
+
+ -----
+} non_cpu_pd_node_t;
+
+typedef struct cpu_pwr_domain_node {
+ unsigned long mpidr;
+
+ /* Index of the parent power domain node */
+ unsigned int parent_node;
+
+ -----
+} cpu_pd_node_t;
+```
+
+The power domain tree is implemented as a combination of the following data
+structures.
+
+```
+non_cpu_pd_node_t psci_non_cpu_pd_nodes[PSCI_NUM_NON_CPU_PWR_DOMAINS];
+cpu_pd_node_t psci_cpu_pd_nodes[PLATFORM_CORE_COUNT];
+```
+
+### Populating the power domain tree
+
+The `populate_power_domain_tree()` function in `psci_setup.c` implements the
+algorithm to parse the power domain descriptor exported by the platform to
+populate the two arrays. It is essentially a breadth-first-search. The nodes for
+each level starting from the root are laid out one after another in the
+`psci_non_cpu_pd_nodes` and `psci_cpu_pd_nodes` arrays as follows:
+
+```
+psci_non_cpu_pd_nodes -> [[Level 3 nodes][Level 2 nodes][Level 1 nodes]]
+psci_cpu_pd_nodes -> [Level 0 nodes]
+```
+
+For the example power domain tree illustrated above, the `psci_cpu_pd_nodes`
+will be populated as follows. The value in each entry is the index of the parent
+node. Other fields have been ignored for simplicity.
+
+```
+ +-------------+ ^
+ CPU0 | 3 | |
+ +-------------+ |
+ CPU1 | 3 | |
+ +-------------+ |
+ CPU2 | 3 | |
+ +-------------+ |
+ CPU3 | 4 | |
+ +-------------+ |
+ CPU4 | 4 | |
+ +-------------+ |
+ CPU5 | 4 | | PLATFORM_CORE_COUNT
+ +-------------+ |
+ CPU6 | 5 | |
+ +-------------+ |
+ CPU7 | 5 | |
+ +-------------+ |
+ CPU8 | 5 | |
+ +-------------+ |
+ CPU9 | 6 | |
+ +-------------+ |
+ CPU10 | 6 | |
+ +-------------+ |
+ CPU11 | 6 | |
+ +-------------+ |
+ CPU12 | 6 | v
+ +-------------+
+```
+
+The `psci_non_cpu_pd_nodes` array will be populated as follows. The value in
+each entry is the index of the parent node.
+
+```
+ +-------------+ ^
+ PD0 | -1 | |
+ +-------------+ |
+ PD1 | 0 | |
+ +-------------+ |
+ PD2 | 0 | |
+ +-------------+ |
+ PD3 | 1 | | PLAT_NUM_POWER_DOMAINS -
+ +-------------+ | PLATFORM_CORE_COUNT
+ PD4 | 1 | |
+ +-------------+ |
+ PD5 | 2 | |
+ +-------------+ |
+ PD6 | 2 | |
+ +-------------+ v
+```
+
+Each core can find its node in the `psci_cpu_pd_nodes` array using the
+`plat_my_core_pos()` function. When a core is turned on, the normal world
+provides an MPIDR. The `plat_core_pos_by_mpidr()` function is used to validate
+the MPIDR before using it to find the corresponding core node. The non-core power
+domain nodes do not need to be identified.