[PATCH v9 3/8] cpu/hotplug: Add dynamic parallel bringup states before CPUHP_BRINGUP_CPU

[Usama Arif]

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

There is often significant latency in the early stages of CPU bringup,
and time is wasted by waking each CPU (e.g. with SIPI/INIT/INIT on x86)
and then waiting for it to respond before moving on to the next.

Allow a platform to register a set of pre-bringup CPUHP states to which
each CPU can be stepped in parallel, thus absorbing some of that latency.

There is a subtlety here: even with an empty CPUHP_BP_PARALLEL_DYN step,
this means that *all* CPUs are brought through the prepare states and to
CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN before any of them are taken to CPUHP_BRINGUP_CPU
and then are allowed to run for themselves to CPUHP_ONLINE.

So any combination of prepare/start calls which depend on A-B ordering
for each CPU in turn, such as the X2APIC code which used to allocate a
cluster mask 'just in case' and store it in a global variable in the
prep stage, then potentially consume that preallocated structure from
the AP and set the global pointer to NULL to be reallocated in
CPUHP_X2APIC_PREPARE for the next CPU... would explode horribly.

Any platform enabling the CPUHP_BP_PARALLEL_DYN steps must be reviewed
and tested to ensure that such issues do not exist, and the existing
behaviour of bringing CPUs to CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN and then immediately
to CPUHP_BRINGUP_CPU and CPUHP_ONLINE only one at a time does not change
unless such a state is registered.

Note that the new parallel stages do *not* yet bring each AP to the
CPUHP_BRINGUP_CPU state at the same time, only to the new states which
exist before it. The final loop in bringup_nonboot_cpus() is untouched,
bringing each AP in turn from the final PARALLEL_DYN state (or all the
way from CPUHP_OFFLINE) to CPUHP_BRINGUP_CPU and then waiting for that
AP to do its own processing and reach CPUHP_ONLINE before releasing the
next.

Parallelising that part by bringing them all to CPUHP_BRINGUP_CPU
and then waiting for them all is an exercise for the future.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/cpuhotplug.h |  2 ++
 kernel/cpu.c               | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h b/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h
index 6c6859bfc454..e5a73ae6ccc0 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h
@@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ enum cpuhp_state {
 	CPUHP_MIPS_SOC_PREPARE,
 	CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN,
 	CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN_END		= CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN + 20,
+	CPUHP_BP_PARALLEL_DYN,
+	CPUHP_BP_PARALLEL_DYN_END		= CPUHP_BP_PARALLEL_DYN + 4,
 	CPUHP_BRINGUP_CPU,
 
 	/*
diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 6c0a92ca6bb5..fffb0da61ccc 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -1504,8 +1504,30 @@ int bringup_hibernate_cpu(unsigned int sleep_cpu)
 
 void bringup_nonboot_cpus(unsigned int setup_max_cpus)
 {
+	unsigned int n = setup_max_cpus - num_online_cpus();
 	unsigned int cpu;
 
+	/*
+	 * An architecture may have registered parallel pre-bringup states to
+	 * which each CPU may be brought in parallel. For each such state,
+	 * bring N CPUs to it in turn before the final round of bringing them
+	 * online.
+	 */
+	if (n > 0) {
+		enum cpuhp_state st = CPUHP_BP_PARALLEL_DYN;
+
+		while (st <= CPUHP_BP_PARALLEL_DYN_END && cpuhp_hp_states[st].name) {
+			int i = n;
+
+			for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
+				cpu_up(cpu, st);
+				if (!--i)
+					break;
+			}
+			st++;
+		}
+	}
+
 	for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
 		if (num_online_cpus() >= setup_max_cpus)
 			break;
@@ -1882,6 +1904,10 @@ static int cpuhp_reserve_state(enum cpuhp_state state)
 		step = cpuhp_hp_states + CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN;
 		end = CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN_END;
 		break;
+	case CPUHP_BP_PARALLEL_DYN:
+		step = cpuhp_hp_states + CPUHP_BP_PARALLEL_DYN;
+		end = CPUHP_BP_PARALLEL_DYN_END;
+		break;
 	default:
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
@@ -1906,14 +1932,15 @@ static int cpuhp_store_callbacks(enum cpuhp_state state, const char *name,
 	/*
 	 * If name is NULL, then the state gets removed.
 	 *
-	 * CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN and CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN are handed out on
+	 * CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN and CPUHP_BP_P*_DYN are handed out on
 	 * the first allocation from these dynamic ranges, so the removal
 	 * would trigger a new allocation and clear the wrong (already
 	 * empty) state, leaving the callbacks of the to be cleared state
 	 * dangling, which causes wreckage on the next hotplug operation.
 	 */
 	if (name && (state == CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN ||
-		     state == CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN)) {
+		     state == CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN ||
+		     state == CPUHP_BP_PARALLEL_DYN)) {
 		ret = cpuhp_reserve_state(state);
 		if (ret < 0)
 			return ret;
-- 
2.25.1