[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/9] SMP support for RISC-V

[Atish Patra]

On 3/6/19 4:32 AM, Anup Patel wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 5:45 PM Auer, Lukas
> <lukas.auer at aisec.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2019-03-06 at 13:01 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> On Mär 06 2019, Anup Patel <anup at brainfault.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 5:17 PM Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse.de>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Mär 06 2019, Anup Patel <Anup.Patel at wdc.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse.de>
>>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2019 4:27 PM
>>>>>>> To: Anup Patel <Anup.Patel at wdc.com>
>>>>>>> Cc: Auer, Lukas <lukas.auer at aisec.fraunhofer.de>;
>>>>>>> u-boot at lists.denx.de;
>>>>>>> paul.walmsley at sifive.com; agraf at suse.de; anup at brainfault.org;
>>>>>>> baruch at tkos.co.il; daniel.schwierzeck at gmail.com;
>>>>>>> bmeng.cn at gmail.com;
>>>>>>> rick at andestech.com; sr at denx.de; palmer at sifive.com; Atish
>>>>>>> Patra
>>>>>>> <Atish.Patra at wdc.com>
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] SMP support for RISC-V
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Apparently sometimes u-boot tries to boot the kernel on heart
>>>>>>> 0 (the E51
>>>>>>> core), which will then fail to start userspace, since that
>>>>>>> cannot cope with the
>>>>>>> missing fpu.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's not possible
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, it is.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> OpenSBI v0.3 (Mar  6 2019 10:55:01)
>>>>>     ____                    _____ ____ _____
>>>>>    / __ \                  / ____|  _ \_   _|
>>>>>   | |  | |_ __   ___ _ __ | (___ | |_) || |
>>>>>   | |  | | '_ \ / _ \ '_ \ \___ \|  _ < | |
>>>>>   | |__| | |_) |  __/ | | |____) | |_) || |_
>>>>>    \____/| .__/ \___|_| |_|_____/|____/_____|
>>>>>          | |
>>>>>          |_|
>>>>>
>>>>> Platform Name          : SiFive Freedom U540
>>>>> Platform HART Features : RV64ACDFIMSU
>>>>> Platform Max HARTs     : 5
>>>>> Current Hart           : 2
>>>>> Firmware Base          : 0x80000000
>>>>> Firmware Size          : 88 KB
>>>>> Runtime SBI Version    : 0.1
>>>>>
>>>>> PMP0: 0x0000000080000000-0x000000008001ffff (A)
>>>>> PMP1: 0x0000000000000000-0x0000007fffffffff (A,R,W,X)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> U-Boot 2019.04-rc3-00010-g3ea5582c09 (Mar 06 2019 - 10:06:10
>>>>> +0100)
>>>>>
>>>>> CPU:   rv64imac
>>>>> Model: sifive,hifive-unleashed-a00
>>>>> DRAM:  8 GiB
>>>>
>>>> How does this prove that U-Boot is booting on HART 0?
>>>
>>> See the CPU isa.
>>>
>>
>> Interesting.. U-Boot assumes that it can run on any core it is started
>> on. In this case, OpenSBI must have booted its payload on hart 0.
> 
> This is certainly not reproducible on cold-boot at my end but this
> does mean OpenSBI has booted HART0 and let it jump to U-Boot.
> 
> Now OpenSBI (by default) on SiFive FU540 does not allow HART0
> to go forward due to lack of S-mode. I think this is definitely the
> warm-boot issue where OpenSBI sees corrupted memory contents.
> 

I am able to test both warm-boot and cold-boot several times(>10) 
without any issue with following pending PR in openSBI.

https://github.com/riscv/opensbi/pull/84

@Andreas @Anup: Can you please apply the above PR on top of master and 
verify at your end as well?

All the harts booted in Linux every time as well.

Regards,
Atish
> Regards,
> Anup
>