[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 00/11] SMP support for RISC-V

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 11:28:31 PDT (-0700), lukas.auer at aisec.fraunhofer.de wrote:
> This patch series adds SMP support for RISC-V to U-Boot. It allows
> U-Boot to run on multi-hart systems (hart is the RISC-V terminology for
> hardware thread). Images passed to bootm will be started on all harts.
> The bootm command is currently the only one that will boot images on all
> harts, bootefi is not yet supported.
>
> The patches have been successfully tested on both QEMU (machine and
> supervisor mode) and the HiFive Unleashed board (supervisor mode), using
> BBL and OpenSBI.
> Mainline QEMU requires two patches [1, 2] to run in this configuration.
> Patch [1] has been dropped and will be replaced with a U-Boot patch.
>
> [1]: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1039493/

As far as I understand it we're taking a different approach here, so this patch 
won't be going in.

> [2]: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1039082/

This should be in rc0, LMK if I screwed something up.

Thanks for the patches, and also for testing on the board :)

> Changes in v3:
> - Print error if riscv_send_ipi() fails
> - Adjust error message for failures of riscv_clear_ipi() to match error
> message for failures of riscv_send_ipi()
> - New patch to save the hart ID in register tp instead of s0
> - Adjust patch to use the new location of the hart ID (register tp)
> - New patch to hang if relocation of secondary harts fails
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Remove unneeded quotes from NR_CPUS Kconfig entry
> - Move memory barrier from send_ipi_many() to handle_ipi()
> - Add check in send_ipi_many so that IPIs are only sent to available
> harts as indicated by the available_harts mask
> - Implement hart lottery to pick main hart to run U-Boot
> - Remove CONFIG_MAIN_HART as it is not required anymore
> - Register available harts in the available_harts mask
> - New patch to populate register a0 with the hart ID from the mhartid
> CSR in machine-mode
> - New patch to enable SMP on the SiFive FU540, which was previously sent
> independently
>
> Lukas Auer (11):
>   riscv: add infrastructure for calling functions on other harts
>   riscv: import the supervisor binary interface header file
>   riscv: implement IPI platform functions using SBI
>   riscv: delay initialization of caches and debug UART
>   riscv: save hart ID in register tp instead of s0
>   riscv: add support for multi-hart systems
>   riscv: boot images passed to bootm on all harts
>   riscv: do not rely on hart ID passed by previous boot stage
>   riscv: hang if relocation of secondary harts fails
>   riscv: fu540: enable SMP
>   riscv: qemu: enable SMP
>
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig                   |  28 +++++
>  arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c                 |   9 +-
>  arch/riscv/cpu/start.S               | 167 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/csr.h         |   1 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/global_data.h |   6 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/sbi.h         |  94 +++++++++++++++
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/smp.h         |  53 +++++++++
>  arch/riscv/lib/Makefile              |   2 +
>  arch/riscv/lib/asm-offsets.c         |   1 +
>  arch/riscv/lib/bootm.c               |  13 ++-
>  arch/riscv/lib/sbi_ipi.c             |  25 ++++
>  arch/riscv/lib/smp.c                 | 118 +++++++++++++++++++
>  board/emulation/qemu-riscv/Kconfig   |   1 +
>  board/sifive/fu540/Kconfig           |   1 +
>  14 files changed, 507 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/sbi.h
>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/smp.h
>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/lib/sbi_ipi.c
>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/lib/smp.c