[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/4] riscv: hart_lottery and available harts features can be selectable

Rick Chen rickchen36 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 25 00:57:20 UTC 2019


Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> 於 2019年4月24日 週三 下午3:02寫道:
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 2:37 PM Andes <uboot at andestech.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Rick Chen <rick at andestech.com>
> >
>
> I would write the commit title and message as:
>
> riscv: Introduce CONFIG_XIP to support booting from flash
>
> When U-Boot boots from flash, during the boot process, hart_lottery
> and available_harts_lock variable addresses point to flash which is
> not writable. This causes boot failures on AE350. Introduce a config
> option CONFIG_XIP to support such configuration.
>

OK.
I will modify it as your description.

> > flash.
> >
> > Add CONFIG_XIP to NOT select this two features. It's default value
> > will say NO for booting from ram.
> >
> > AE350 will encounter the the write failure problem since
> > hart_lottery and available_harts_lock was not in ram address but
> > in flash address when booing from flash.
> >
> > This patch can help to fix the write failure problem when AE350
> > booting from flash by disabling this two features.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rick Chen <rick at andestech.com>
> > Cc: Greentime Hu <greentime at andestech.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/riscv/Kconfig                   | 10 ++++++++++
> >  arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c                 |  3 ++-
> >  arch/riscv/cpu/start.S               |  7 ++++++-
> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/global_data.h |  2 ++
> >  arch/riscv/lib/asm-offsets.c         |  2 ++
> >  arch/riscv/lib/smp.c                 |  2 ++
> >  6 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> > index ae8ff7b..fb9a8c6 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> > @@ -162,6 +162,16 @@ config SBI_IPI
> >         default y if RISCV_SMODE
> >         depends on SMP
> >
> > +config XIP
> > +       bool "XIP mode"
> > +       default n
>
> nits: this is not necessary as by default all config options are n

OK

>
> > +       help
> > +         XIP (eXecute In Place) is a method for executing code directly
> > +         from a serial NOR flash memory without copying the code to ram.
>
> It's not necessary to be a serial NOR flash. A parallel flash can be
> the same. I think you can just mention NOR flash memory.
>
> > +         This must NOT support hart lottery and available harts features.
> > +         These two feature only can be enabled when U-Boot booting from
> > +         ram, but shall be disabled when booting from flash.
>
> remove the rest of the help message, and something like this:
>
> Say yes here if U-Boot boots from flash directly.

OK

>
> > +
> >  config STACK_SIZE_SHIFT
> >         int
> >         default 13
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c b/arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c
> > index c32de8a..768c44c 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c
> > @@ -16,13 +16,14 @@
> >   * before the bss section is available.
> >   */
> >  phys_addr_t prior_stage_fdt_address __attribute__((section(".data")));
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_XIP
> >  u32 hart_lottery __attribute__((section(".data"))) = 0;
> > -
> >  /*
> >   * The main hart running U-Boot has acquired available_harts_lock until it has
> >   * finished initialization of global data.
> >   */
> >  u32 available_harts_lock = 1;
> > +#endif
> >
> >  static inline bool supports_extension(char ext)
> >  {
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/cpu/start.S b/arch/riscv/cpu/start.S
> > index a4433fb..41d9a32 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/cpu/start.S
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/cpu/start.S
> > @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ call_board_init_f_0:
> >         mv      sp, a0
> >  #endif
> >
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_XIP
> >         /*
> >          * Pick hart to initialize global data and run U-Boot. The other harts
> >          * wait for initialization to complete.
> > @@ -106,6 +107,9 @@ call_board_init_f_0:
> >         li      s2, 1
> >         amoswap.w s2, t1, 0(t0)
> >         bnez    s2, wait_for_gd_init
> > +#else
> > +       bnez    tp, secondary_hart_loop
> > +#endif
> >
> >         la      t0, prior_stage_fdt_address
> >         SREG    s1, 0(t0)
> > @@ -115,6 +119,7 @@ call_board_init_f_0:
> >         /* save the boot hart id to global_data */
> >         SREG    tp, GD_BOOT_HART(gp)
> >
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_XIP
> >         la      t0, available_harts_lock
> >         fence   rw, w
> >         amoswap.w zero, zero, 0(t0)
> > @@ -141,7 +146,7 @@ wait_for_gd_init:
> >          * secondary_hart_loop.
> >          */
> >         bnez    s2, secondary_hart_loop
> > -
>
> Please keep the original blank line here.

OK

>
> > +#endif
> >         /* Enable cache */
> >         jal     icache_enable
> >         jal     dcache_enable
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/global_data.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/global_data.h
> > index dffcd45..b74bd7e 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/global_data.h
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/global_data.h
> > @@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ struct arch_global_data {
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> >         struct ipi_data ipi[CONFIG_NR_CPUS];
> >  #endif
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_XIP
> >         ulong available_harts;
> > +#endif
> >  };
> >
> >  #include <asm-generic/global_data.h>
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/lib/asm-offsets.c b/arch/riscv/lib/asm-offsets.c
> > index f998402..4fa4fd3 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/lib/asm-offsets.c
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/lib/asm-offsets.c
> > @@ -14,7 +14,9 @@
> >  int main(void)
> >  {
> >         DEFINE(GD_BOOT_HART, offsetof(gd_t, arch.boot_hart));
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_XIP
> >         DEFINE(GD_AVAILABLE_HARTS, offsetof(gd_t, arch.available_harts));
> > +#endif
> >
> >         return 0;
> >  }
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/lib/smp.c b/arch/riscv/lib/smp.c
> > index caa292c..cc66f15 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/lib/smp.c
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/lib/smp.c
> > @@ -63,9 +63,11 @@ static int send_ipi_many(struct ipi_data *ipi)
> >                         continue;
> >                 }
> >
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_XIP
> >                 /* skip if hart is not available */
> >                 if (!(gd->arch.available_harts & (1 << reg)))
> >                         continue;
> > +#endif
> >
> >                 gd->arch.ipi[reg].addr = ipi->addr;
> >                 gd->arch.ipi[reg].arg0 = ipi->arg0;
> > --
>
> Regards,
> Bin


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