On 10/08/2022 10:42, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
Hi Nikos,
On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 01:56:13PM +0100, Nikos Nikoleris wrote:
On 09/08/2022 10:15, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
For the boot CPU, the entire stack is zeroed in the entry code. For the
secondaries, only struct thread_info, which lives at the bottom of the
stack, is zeroed in thread_info_init().
That's a good point.
Be consistent and zero the entire stack for the secondaries. This should
also improve reproducibility of the testsuite, as all the stacks now start
with the same contents, which is zero. And now that all the stacks are
zeroed in the entry code, there is no need to explicitely zero struct
thread_info in thread_info_init().
Wouldn't it make more sense to call memset(sp, 0, THREAD_SIZE); from
thread_stack_alloc() instead and avoid doing this in assembly? Do we expect
I prefer to do the zero'ing in assembly because:
1. For consistency, which is one of the main reasons this patch exists.
2. I don't want to deal with all the cache maintenance that is required for
inter-CPU communication. Let's keep it simple.
I see that's a very good point. For this reason, I agree initializing to
0 is better done locally.
Since you brought this up, we might have to worry about the thread_info
fields we initialize in __thread_info_init(). But this is a problem for
another patch.
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@xxxxxxx>
Thanks,
Nikos
anyone to jump to secondary_entry without calling thread_stack_alloc()
first?
It's impossible to jump to secondary_data.entry without allocating the
stack first, because it's impossible to run C code without a valid stack.
> Thanks,
Alex
Thanks,
Nikos
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@xxxxxxx>
---
arm/cstart.S | 6 ++++++
arm/cstart64.S | 3 +++
lib/arm/processor.c | 1 -
lib/arm64/processor.c | 1 -
4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arm/cstart.S b/arm/cstart.S
index 39260e0fa470..39e70f40986a 100644
--- a/arm/cstart.S
+++ b/arm/cstart.S
@@ -151,7 +151,13 @@ secondary_entry:
*/
ldr r1, =secondary_data
ldr r0, [r1]
+ mov r2, r0
+ lsr r2, #THREAD_SHIFT
+ lsl r2, #THREAD_SHIFT
+ add r3, r2, #THREAD_SIZE
+ zero_range r2, r3, r4, r5
mov sp, r0
+
bl exceptions_init
bl enable_vfp
diff --git a/arm/cstart64.S b/arm/cstart64.S
index d62360cf3859..54773676d1d5 100644
--- a/arm/cstart64.S
+++ b/arm/cstart64.S
@@ -156,6 +156,9 @@ secondary_entry:
/* set the stack */
adrp x0, secondary_data
ldr x0, [x0, :lo12:secondary_data]
+ and x1, x0, #THREAD_MASK
+ add x2, x1, #THREAD_SIZE
+ zero_range x1, x2
mov sp, x0
/* finish init in C code */
diff --git a/lib/arm/processor.c b/lib/arm/processor.c
index 9d5759686b73..ceff1c0a1bd2 100644
--- a/lib/arm/processor.c
+++ b/lib/arm/processor.c
@@ -117,7 +117,6 @@ void do_handle_exception(enum vector v, struct pt_regs *regs)
void thread_info_init(struct thread_info *ti, unsigned int flags)
{
- memset(ti, 0, sizeof(struct thread_info));
ti->cpu = mpidr_to_cpu(get_mpidr());
ti->flags = flags;
}
diff --git a/lib/arm64/processor.c b/lib/arm64/processor.c
index 831207c16587..268b2858f0be 100644
--- a/lib/arm64/processor.c
+++ b/lib/arm64/processor.c
@@ -232,7 +232,6 @@ void install_vector_handler(enum vector v, vector_fn fn)
static void __thread_info_init(struct thread_info *ti, unsigned int flags)
{
- memset(ti, 0, sizeof(struct thread_info));
ti->cpu = mpidr_to_cpu(get_mpidr());
ti->flags = flags;
}
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