On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 03:13:30PM -0800, Loc Ho wrote: > Hi Lorenzo, > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:10 AM, Lorenzo Pieralisi > <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > The SBBR and ACPI specifications allow ACPI based systems that do not > > implement PSCI (eg systems with no EL3) to boot through the ACPI parking > > protocol specification[1]. > > > > This patch implements the ACPI parking protocol CPU operations, and adds > > code that eases parsing the parking protocol data structures to the > > ARM64 SMP initializion carried out at the same time as cpus enumeration. > > > > To wake-up the CPUs from the parked state, this patch implements a > > wakeup IPI for ARM64 (ie arch_send_wakeup_ipi_mask()) that mirrors the > > ARM one, so that a specific IPI is sent for wake-up purpose in order > > to distinguish it from other IPI sources. > > > > Given the current ACPI MADT parsing API, the patch implements a glue > > layer that helps passing MADT GICC data structure from SMP initialization > > code to the parking protocol implementation somewhat overriding the CPU > > operations interfaces. This to avoid creating a completely trasparent > > DT/ACPI CPU operations layer that would require creating opaque > > structure handling for CPUs data (DT represents CPU through DT nodes, ACPI > > through static MADT table entries), which seems overkill given that ACPI > > on ARM64 mandates only two booting protocols (PSCI and parking protocol), > > so there is no need for further protocol additions. > > > > Based on the original work by Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > [1] https://acpica.org/sites/acpica/files/MP%20Startup%20for%20ARM%20platforms.docx > > > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx> > > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> > > Cc: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Loc Ho <lho@xxxxxxx> > > Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> > > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> > > Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> > > Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Al Stone <ahs3@xxxxxxxxxx> > > I had tested this with X-Gene Mustang board. It applies cleanly > against 4.5.0-rc1 and detected all CPU's. For those of you want to try > this, you need an FW update if you are using APM Tianocore. Otherwise, > it will stuck in very early booting stage. We can take this as a Tested-by, right ? Thanks, Lorenzo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
