Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARC: mcip: halt GFRC together with ARC cores

[Eugeniy Paltsev]

Hi Vineet,

On Wed, 2018-02-21 at 15:42 -0800, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On 02/21/2018 12:31 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> > Hi Eugeniy,
> > 
> > > Starting from ARC HS v3.0
> > 
> > ÂFrom the STAR fix, it seem this was fixed in HS 2.1c, so you should be able toÂ
> > test it on HSDK, which was my next question: where and how did you test this andÂ
> > verify that it works as we think it does. I tried the patch on HSDK and I stillÂ
> > see the rcu_preempt self-detected stall error splat when running hackbench andÂ
> > pausing the target with Metaware debugger. Perhaps we need to write a small testÂ
> > case to check what's going on. Also try that on AXS103 release which is definitelyÂ
> > HS 3.0 !
> 
> So I tried this on both.
> Â - HSDKÂÂÂ(HS 2.1c): Doesn't work
> Â - AXS103 (HS 3.0) : Works

I checked the HS_3.00a and HS_2.1c documentation - GFRC HALT commands/settings exist
only in HS_3.00a.

> 
> Fortunately we can read (yet another BCR: GFRC_BUILD) and infer whether this isÂ
> supported or not. So add that check in mcip_update_gfrc_halt_mask()

Ok, I'll add GFRC_BUILD read.

> > > it's possible to tie GFRC to state of up-to 4
> > > ARC cores with help of GFRC's CORE register where we set a mask for
> > > cores which state we need to rely on.
> 
> On second thoughts, do we really have to do this per cpu. Just write 0xf once justÂ
> as Alexey did in first iteration.

And we will face with same problems like with MCIP debug.
Remember what happens when we launch kernel on one CPU on board which has several CPUs.

> In theory this could be called concurrently by multiple cpus and mcip doesn'tÂ
> guarantee any internal serialization/buffering. Granted, current use
case is fineÂ
> as mcip_setup_per_cpu --> plat_smp_ops.init_per_cpu is serialized by master core,Â
> we could run into issue when say cpu hot plug etc
works. So better to wrap thisÂ
> inside the spinlock which we already have.

Yep, I was also thinking about adding the spinlock here...
I'll add it in next patch version.

> -Vineet
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ÂEugeniy Paltsev