Re: kexec failures on ipq4019

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Hi Andy,

On 7/11/2018 5:10 AM, Andy Strohman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:36 PM, Sricharan R <sricharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Andy,
>>
>>>
>>> That said, the current code mach-qcom/platsmp.c does not implement the
>>> cpu_kill callback. Even for a hotplug its just a wfi(). While doing
>>> a wfi() is going to work for hotplug, it would not for the kexec, since
>>> the cpu's were never put it reset state and waking them would simply fail.
>>>
>>> That means we need to have the complement to kpssv2_release_secondary
>>> implemented for cpu_kill callback. I will try to write down the exact
>>> sequence from programming guide and give here.
>>>
>>
>> Please look at the code in drivers/soc/qcom/spm.c that controls the sequence
>> of cpu 'c' state during the cpuidle. spm block is the one that takes care
>> of powerdown/up sequence of the cpu after 'wfi' . Similar thing needs to be
>> then done for cpu_kill if we expect a 'cpu' to be powercollapsed and to
>> be brought back during the kexec kernel reboot.
>>
>> Also, please have a look at
>> https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.4/tree/arch/arm/mach-msm/platsmp.c?h=LA.HB.1.1.5.c1,
>> old non-dt code that is having the cpu_kill back. When no PM, it simply is a WFI.
>>
>> Regards,
>>  Sricharan
>>
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> 
> Hi Sricharan,
> 
>   I just want to thank you for your help and suggestions.  I wasn't
> able to get it working quickly, so I have to move on to other things.
> If/when I get this working, I'll be sure to let you know what I did.
> 

 Sure. Me too would try this (kexec without no_cpus=1) and let you know.
 At the moment, little busy with few other things. But would surely mark this
 in my next to-do and comeback.

Regards,
 Sricharan

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