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2013-09-23ARM: bL_switcher: Add query interface to discover CPU affinitiesDave Martin
When the switcher is active, there is no straightforward way to figure out which logical CPU a given physical CPU maps to. This patch provides a function bL_switcher_get_logical_index(mpidr), which is analogous to get_logical_index(). This function returns the logical CPU on which the specified physical CPU is grouped (or -EINVAL if unknown). If the switcher is inactive or not present, -EUNATCH is returned instead. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
2013-09-23ARM: bL_switcher/trace: Add kernel trace trigger interfaceDave Martin
This patch exports a bL_switcher_trace_trigger() function to provide a means for drivers using the trace events to get the current status when starting a trace session. Calling this function is equivalent to pinging the trace_trigger file in sysfs. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
2013-09-23ARM: bL_switcher: Add switch completion callback for bL_switch_request()Dave Martin
There is no explicit way to know when a switch started via bL_switch_request() is complete. This can lead to unpredictable behaviour when the switcher is controlled by a subsystem which makes dynamic decisions (such as cpufreq). The CPU PM notifier is not really suitable for signalling completion, because the CPU could get suspended and resumed for other, independent reasons while a switch request is in flight. Adding a whole new notifier for this seems excessive, and may tempt people to put heavyweight code on this path. This patch implements a new bL_switch_request_cb() function that allows for a per-request lightweight callback, private between the switcher and the caller of bL_switch_request_cb(). Overlapping switches on a single CPU are considered incorrect if they are requested via bL_switch_request_cb() with a callback (they will lead to an unpredictable final state without explicit external synchronisation to force the requests into a particular order). Queuing requests robustly would be overkill because only one subsystem should be attempting to control the switcher at any time. Overlapping requests of this kind will be failed with -EBUSY to indicate that the second request won't take effect and the completer will never be called for it. bL_switch_request() is retained as a wrapper round the new function, with the old, fire-and-forget semantics. In this case the last request will always win. The request may still be denied if a previous request with a completer is still pending. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
2013-09-23ARM: bL_switcher: Add runtime control notifierDave Martin
Some subsystems will need to respond synchronously to runtime enabling and disabling of the switcher. This patch adds a dedicated notifier interface to support such subsystems. Pre- and post- enable/disable notifications are sent to registered callbacks, allowing safe transition of non-b.L- transparent subsystems across these control transitions. Notifier callbacks may veto switcher (de)activation on pre notifications only. Post notifications won't revert the action. If enabling or disabling of the switcher fails after the pre-change notification has been sent, subsystems which have registered notifiers can be left in an inappropriate state. This patch sends a suitable post-change notification on failure, indicating that the old state has been reestablished. For example, a failed initialisation will result in the following sequence: BL_NOTIFY_PRE_ENABLE /* switcher initialisation fails */ BL_NOTIFY_POST_DISABLE It is the responsibility of notified subsystems to respond in an appropriate way. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
2013-09-23ARM: bL_switcher: Add synchronous enable/disable interfaceDave Martin
Some subsystems will need to know for sure whether the switcher is enabled or disabled during certain critical regions. This patch provides a simple mutex-based mechanism to discover whether the switcher is enabled and temporarily lock out further enable/disable: * bL_switcher_get_enabled() returns true iff the switcher is enabled and temporarily inhibits enable/disable. * bL_switcher_put_enabled() permits enable/disable of the switcher again after a previous call to bL_switcher_get_enabled(). Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
2013-07-30ARM: bL_switcher: move to dedicated threads rather than workqueuesNicolas Pitre
The workqueues are problematic as they may be contended. They can't be scheduled with top priority either. Also the optimization in bL_switch_request() to skip the workqueue entirely when the target CPU and the calling CPU were the same didn't allow for bL_switch_request() to be called from atomic context, as might be the case for some cpufreq drivers. Let's move to dedicated kthreads instead. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
2013-07-30ARM: b.L: core switcher codeNicolas Pitre
This is the core code implementing big.LITTLE switcher functionality. Rationale for this code is available here: http://lwn.net/Articles/481055/ The main entry point for a switch request is: void bL_switch_request(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int new_cluster_id) If the calling CPU is not the wanted one, this wrapper takes care of sending the request to the appropriate CPU with schedule_work_on(). At the moment the core switch operation is handled by bL_switch_to() which must be called on the CPU for which a switch is requested. What this code does: * Return early if the current cluster is the wanted one. * Close the gate in the kernel entry vector for both the inbound and outbound CPUs. * Wake up the inbound CPU so it can perform its reset sequence in parallel up to the kernel entry vector gate. * Migrate all interrupts in the GIC targeting the outbound CPU interface to the inbound CPU interface, including SGIs. This is performed by gic_migrate_target() in drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c. * Call cpu_pm_enter() which takes care of flushing the VFP state to RAM and save the CPU interface config from the GIC to RAM. * Modify the cpu_logical_map to refer to the inbound physical CPU. * Call cpu_suspend() which saves the CPU state (general purpose registers, page table address) onto the stack and store the resulting stack pointer in an array indexed by the updated cpu_logical_map, then call the provided shutdown function. This happens in arch/arm/kernel/sleep.S. At this point, the provided shutdown function executed by the outbound CPU ungates the inbound CPU. Therefore the inbound CPU: * Picks up the saved stack pointer in the array indexed by its MPIDR in arch/arm/kernel/sleep.S. * The MMU and caches are re-enabled using the saved state on the provided stack, just like if this was a resume operation from a suspended state. * Then cpu_suspend() returns, although this is on the inbound CPU rather than the outbound CPU which called it initially. * The function cpu_pm_exit() is called which effect is to restore the CPU interface state in the GIC using the state previously saved by the outbound CPU. * Exit of bL_switch_to() to resume normal kernel execution on the new CPU. However, the outbound CPU is potentially still running in parallel while the inbound CPU is resuming normal kernel execution, hence we need per CPU stack isolation to execute bL_do_switch(). After the outbound CPU has ungated the inbound CPU, it calls mcpm_cpu_power_down() to: * Clean its L1 cache. * If it is the last CPU still alive in its cluster (last man standing), it also cleans its L2 cache and disables cache snooping from the other cluster. * Power down the CPU (or whole cluster). Code called from bL_do_switch() might end up referencing 'current' for some reasons. However, 'current' is derived from the stack pointer. With any arbitrary stack, the returned value for 'current' and any dereferenced values through it are just random garbage which may lead to segmentation faults. The active page table during the execution of bL_do_switch() is also a problem. There is no guarantee that the inbound CPU won't destroy the corresponding task which would free the attached page table while the outbound CPU is still running and relying on it. To solve both issues, we borrow some of the task space belonging to the init/idle task which, by its nature, is lightly used and therefore is unlikely to clash with our usage. The init task is also never going away. Right now the logical CPU number is assumed to be equivalent to the physical CPU number within each cluster. The kernel should also be booted with only one cluster active. These limitations will be lifted eventually. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>