[RFC PATCH v4 1/2] arch: riscv: cpu: Add callback to init each core

Green Wan green.wan at sifive.com
Fri Apr 9 18:05:34 CEST 2021


Hi folks,

Correct me if I'm wrong, like Rick mentioned, i/dcache
enable/disable() is only called on the main hart. Right now the dummy
i/dcache enable/disable are empty and shared among all riscv CPU. The
ax25 is the only one that has its own implementation for now.

FU540/FU740 also leverages the dummy i/dcache enable/disable()
functions (only main hart calls them). L2 cache on FU540/FU740 is
enabled as SRAM purpose. And according to the HW design behavior, once
L2 is enabled, it can't be disabled unless doing a reset.[1] The Linux
L2$ driver will handle that according to the configuration of L2
registers.

[1] https://static.dev.sifive.com/FU540-C000-v1.0.pdf

Thanks,

On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 9:18 PM Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/9/21 4:16 AM, Rick Chen wrote:
> > Hi Sean ,Bin
> >
> >> From: Bin Meng [mailto:bmeng.cn at gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2021 5:16 PM
> >> To: Sean Anderson
> >> Cc: Green Wan; Rick Jian-Zhi Chen(陳建志); Paul Walmsley; Pragnesh Patel; Bin Meng; Simon Glass; Atish Patra; Leo Yu-Chi Liang(梁育齊); Brad Kim; U-Boot Mailing List
> >> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 1/2] arch: riscv: cpu: Add callback to init each core
> >>
> >> On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 6:53 AM Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 3/30/21 1:26 AM, Green Wan wrote:
> >>>> Add a callback riscv_hart_early_init() to ./arch/riscv/cpu/start.S to
> >>>> allow different riscv hart perform setup code for each hart as early
> >>>> as possible. Since all the harts enter the callback, they must be able
> >>>> to run the same setup.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Green Wan <green.wan at sifive.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>    arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c   | 15 +++++++++++++++
> >>>>    arch/riscv/cpu/start.S | 14 ++++++++++++++
> >>>>    2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c b/arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c
> >>>> index 85592f5bee..1652e51137 100644
> >>>> --- a/arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c
> >>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c
> >>>> @@ -140,3 +140,18 @@ int arch_early_init_r(void)
> >>>>    {
> >>>>        return riscv_cpu_probe();
> >>>>    }
> >>>> +
> >>>> +/**
> >>>> + * riscv_hart_early_init() - A dummy function called by
> >>>> + * ./arch/riscv/cpu/start.S to allow to disable/enable features of each core.
> >>>> + * For example, turn on or off the functional block of CPU harts.
> >>>> + *
> >>>> + * In a multi-core system, this function must not access shared resources.
> >>>> + *
> >>>> + * Any access to such resources would probably be better done with
> >>>> + * available_harts_lock held. However, I doubt that any such access will be
> >>>> + * necessary.
> >>>> + */
> >>>> +__weak void riscv_hart_early_init(void)
> >>>> +{
> >>>> +}
> >>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/cpu/start.S b/arch/riscv/cpu/start.S
> >>>> index 8589509e01..ab73008f23 100644
> >>>> --- a/arch/riscv/cpu/start.S
> >>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/cpu/start.S
> >>>> @@ -117,6 +117,20 @@ call_board_init_f_0:
> >>>>        mv      sp, a0
> >>>>    #endif
> >>>>
> >>>> +#if CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(RISCV_MMODE)
> >>>> +     /*
> >>>> +      * Jump to riscv_hart_early_init() to perform init for each core. Not
> >>>> +      * expect to access gd since gd is not initialized. All operations in the
> >>>> +      * function should affect core itself only. In multi-core system, any access
> >>>> +      * to common resource or registers outside core should be avoided or need a
> >>>> +      * protection for multicore.
> >>>> +      *
> >>>> +      * A dummy implementation is provided in ./arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c.
> >>>> +      */
> >>>> +call_riscv_hart_early_init:
> >>>> +     jal     riscv_hart_early_init
> >>>> +#endif
> >>>> +
> >>>
> >>> I wonder if we could move the calls to icache_enable and dcache_enable
> >>> into this function. Though this would have the consequence of enabling
> >>> caches on all harts for CPUs which previously only enabled them for the
> >>> boot hart. I think ax25 is the only CPU which currently does this. Bin,
> >>> would this be an issue?
> >
> > No, they are functions shall be called in different stage about lottery.
> > riscv_hart_early_init() is called before lottery for all harts.
> > It shall not move icache_enable() and dcache_enable() into
> > riscv_hart_early_init(), they are belong to the stage after lottery
> > only for main hart.
> >
> >>
> >> Good catch. I believe AX25 cache support is currently somehow broken?
> >
> > No, AX25 cache support is currently work well.
> >
> >>
> >> I think Rick has to comment on this as he added this via commit:
> >>
> >> commit 52923c6db7f00e0197ec894c8c1bb8a7681974bb
> >> Author: Rick Chen <rick at andestech.com>
> >> Date:   Wed Nov 7 09:34:06 2018 +0800
> >>
> >>      riscv: cache: Implement i/dcache [status, enable, disable]
> >>
> >>      AndeStar RISC-V(V5) provide mcache_ctl register which
> >>      can configure I/D cache as enabled or disabled.
> >>
> >>      This CSR will be encapsulated by CONFIG_RISCV_NDS.
> >>      If you want to configure cache on AndeStar V5
> >>      AE350 platform. YOu can enable [*] AndeStar V5 ISA support
> >>      by make menuconfig.
> >>
> >>      This approach also provide the expansion when the
> >>      vender specific features are going to join in.
> >>
> >>      Signed-off-by: Rick Chen <rick at andestech.com>
> >>      Cc: Greentime Hu <greentime at andestech.com>
> >>
> >> The original commit has i/d cache enabled on all harts. But it was
> >> later moved to boot hart due to SMP support.
> >
> > Not all harts will enable i/d cache during startup currently, only
> > main hart will enable i/d cache here.
> > So only main hart will disable i/d cache in cleanup_before_linux().
>
> Ok, so we have ax25 where cache is disabled on all harts before Linux,
> and fu740 where cache will be enabled on all harts. Is there any
> guidance from Linux on what should be happening here?
>
> --Sean
>
> > Thanks,
> > Rick
> >
> >>
> >> However on the cleanup side, it looks only the boot hart calls i/d
> >> cache disable?
> >
> >>
> >> See arch/riscv/cpu/ax25/cpu.c:: cleanup_before_linux()
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Bin
>
>


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