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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 11/16] irqchip/gic-v3: Add support for ACPI's disabled but 'online capable' CPUs
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:41:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86bk5wqoso.wl-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240425175502.00007def@huawei.com>

On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:55:27 +0100,
Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:00:17 +0100
> Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:31:50 +0100
> > Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:33:22 +0100
> > > Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote:

[...]

> > >   
> > > > I'd expect the handling side to look like this (will not compile, but
> > > > you'll get the idea):    
> > > Hi Marc,
> > > 
> > > In general this looks good - but...
> > > 
> > > I haven't gotten to the bottom of why yet (and it might be a side
> > > effect of how I hacked the test by lying in minimal fashion and
> > > just frigging the MADT read functions) but the hotplug flow is only getting
> > > as far as calling __cpu_up() before it seems to enter an infinite loop.
> > > That is it never gets far enough to fail this test.
> > > 
> > > Getting stuck in a psci cpu_on call.  I'm guessing something that
> > > we didn't get to in the earlier gicv3 calls before bailing out is blocking that?
> > > Looks like it gets to
> > > SMCCC smc
> > > and is never seen again.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas on where to look?  The one advantage so far of the higher level
> > > approach is we never tried the hotplug callbacks at all so avoided hitting
> > > that call.  One (little bit horrible) solution that might avoid this would 
> > > be to add another cpuhp state very early on and fail at that stage.
> > > I'm not keen on doing that without a better explanation than I have so far!  
> > 
> > Whilst it still doesn't work I suspect I'm loosing ability to print to the console
> > between that point and somewhat later and real problem is
> > elsewhere.

Sorry, travelling at the moment, so only spotted this now.

> 
> Hi again,
> 
> Found it I think.  cpuhp calls between cpu:bringup and ap:online 
> arm made from notify_cpu_starting() are clearly marked as nofail with a comment.
> STARTING must not fail!
> 
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/kernel/cpu.c#L1642

Ah, now that rings a bell! ;-)

> 
> Whilst I have no immediate idea why that comment is there it is pretty strong
> argument against trying to have the CPUHP_AP_IRQ_GIC_STARTING callback fail
> and expecting it to carry on working :( 
> There would have been a nice print message, but given I don't appear to have
> a working console after that stage I never see it.
> 
> So the best I have yet come up with for this is the option of a new callback registered
> in gic_smp_init()
> 
> cpuhp_setup_state_nocalls(CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN,
> 			  "irqchip/arm/gicv3:checkrdist",
> 			  gic_broken_rdist, NULL);
> 
> with callback being simply 
> 
> static int gic_broken_rdist(unsigned int cpu)
> {
> 	if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &broken_rdists))
> 		return -EINVAL;
> 
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> That gets called cpuhp_up_callbacks() and is allows to fail and roll back the steps.
> 
> Not particularly satisfying but keeps the logic confined to the gicv3 driver.
> 
> What do you think?

Good enough for me. Cc me on the resulting patch when you repost it so
that I can eyeball it, but this is IMO the right direction.

Thanks,

	M.

-- 
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-26 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-18 13:53 [PATCH v7 00/16] ACPI/arm64: add support for virtual cpu hotplug Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-18 13:53 ` [PATCH v7 01/16] ACPI: processor: Simplify initial onlining to use same path for cold and hotplug Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-22 18:46   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-23  6:18   ` Hanjun Guo
2024-04-26  9:23   ` Gavin Shan
2024-04-18 13:53 ` [PATCH v7 02/16] cpu: Do not warn on arch_register_cpu() returning -EPROBE_DEFER Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-23  6:22   ` Hanjun Guo
2024-04-26  9:20   ` Gavin Shan
2024-04-18 13:53 ` [PATCH v7 03/16] ACPI: processor: Drop duplicated check on _STA (enabled + present) Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-22 18:48   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-23  6:49   ` Hanjun Guo
2024-04-23  9:31     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-23 11:13       ` Hanjun Guo
2024-04-26  9:24   ` Gavin Shan
2024-04-18 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 04/16] ACPI: processor: Move checks and availability of acpi_processor earlier Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-22 18:56   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-24 16:53     ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-23 11:53   ` Hanjun Guo
2024-04-24 17:18     ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-25  1:20       ` Hanjun Guo
2024-04-18 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 05/16] ACPI: processor: Add acpi_get_processor_handle() helper Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-22 18:59   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-26  9:15   ` Gavin Shan
2024-04-18 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 06/16] ACPI: processor: Register deferred CPUs from acpi_processor_get_info() Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-22 19:02   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-23 11:58   ` Hanjun Guo
2024-04-26  9:18   ` Gavin Shan
2024-04-18 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 07/16] ACPI: scan: switch to flags for acpi_scan_check_and_detach() Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-22 19:05   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-23 12:02   ` Hanjun Guo
2024-04-26  9:25   ` Gavin Shan
2024-04-18 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 08/16] ACPI: Add post_eject to struct acpi_scan_handler for cpu hotplug Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-22 19:10   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-23 12:06   ` Hanjun Guo
2024-04-26 11:48   ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-18 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 09/16] arm64: acpi: Move get_cpu_for_acpi_id() to a header Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-22 10:46   ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-23 12:10   ` Hanjun Guo
2024-04-18 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 10/16] irqchip/gic-v3: Don't return errors from gic_acpi_match_gicc() Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-22 10:39   ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-18 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 11/16] irqchip/gic-v3: Add support for ACPI's disabled but 'online capable' CPUs Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-22 10:40   ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-23 12:01     ` Marc Zyngier
2024-04-24 12:54       ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-24 15:33         ` Marc Zyngier
2024-04-24 16:35           ` Salil Mehta
2024-04-24 17:08             ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-25 10:23               ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-25 12:31           ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-25 15:00             ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-25 16:55               ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-26 12:41                 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2024-04-25  9:28         ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-25  9:56           ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-25 10:13             ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-18 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 12/16] arm64: psci: Ignore DENIED CPUs Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-22 10:44   ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-26  9:36   ` Gavin Shan
2024-04-26  9:57     ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-18 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 13/16] arm64: arch_register_cpu() variant to check if an ACPI handle is now available Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-18 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 14/16] arm64: Kconfig: Enable hotplug CPU on arm64 if ACPI_PROCESSOR is enabled Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-24 17:24   ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-18 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 15/16] arm64: document virtual CPU hotplug's expectations Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-18 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 16/16] cpumask: Add enabled cpumask for present CPUs that can be brought online Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-18 19:50 ` [PATCH v7 00/16] ACPI/arm64: add support for virtual cpu hotplug Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-22 19:16   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-19 15:39 ` Miguel Luis

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