From: Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org>
To: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 08/14] riscv: move boot alternatives to a slightly earlier position
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 14:42:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOnJCULe_5v6cb_JcoPKf-UD3bVze1U=jaYeLTsMu7pFigde+A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220209123800.269774-9-heiko@sntech.de>
On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 4:39 AM Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> wrote:
>
> Move the application of boot alternatives to soc_early_init().
> This allows to catch more generic cases of code needing patches
> than doing it in smp_prepare_boot_cpu() and also makes it actually
> work if CONFIG_SMP is disabled for whatever reason.
>
> The position is chosen mainly as it is before the actual soc early
> init runs but also already allows accessing the devicetree
> via fdt_* functions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
> ---
> arch/riscv/kernel/head.S | 2 ++
> arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c | 2 --
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/head.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/head.S
> index 2363b43312fc..0e1bb97f9749 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/head.S
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/head.S
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
> #include <asm/thread_info.h>
> #include <asm/page.h>
> #include <asm/pgtable.h>
> +#include <asm/alternative.h>
> #include <asm/csr.h>
> #include <asm/cpu_ops_sbi.h>
> #include <asm/hwcap.h>
> @@ -341,6 +342,7 @@ clear_bss_done:
> call kasan_early_init
> #endif
> /* Start the kernel */
> + call apply_boot_alternatives
Do you really need this early ?
if non-smp configuration is the only option, Can you do it in
setup_arch() after riscv_fill_hwcap() is called ?
By doing that, we can unify the cpu feature probing and you don't need
a separate DT parsing just for svpbmt.
> call soc_early_init
> tail start_kernel
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c
> index a6d13dca1403..f1e4948a4b52 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
> #include <asm/sections.h>
> #include <asm/sbi.h>
> #include <asm/smp.h>
> -#include <asm/alternative.h>
>
> #include "head.h"
>
> @@ -41,7 +40,6 @@ static DECLARE_COMPLETION(cpu_running);
> void __init smp_prepare_boot_cpu(void)
> {
> init_cpu_topology();
> - apply_boot_alternatives();
> }
>
> void __init smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus)
> --
> 2.30.2
>
>
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Regards,
Atish
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-10 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-09 12:37 [PATCH v6 00/14] riscv: support for Svpbmt and D1 memory types Heiko Stuebner
2022-02-09 12:37 ` [PATCH v6 01/14] riscv: prevent null-pointer dereference with sbi_remote_fence_i Heiko Stuebner
2022-02-11 1:59 ` Atish Patra
2022-02-09 12:37 ` [PATCH v6 02/14] riscv: integrate alternatives better into the main architecture Heiko Stuebner
2022-02-09 12:37 ` [PATCH v6 03/14] riscv: allow different stages with alternatives Heiko Stuebner
2022-02-09 12:37 ` [PATCH v6 04/14] riscv: implement module alternatives Heiko Stuebner
2022-02-09 12:37 ` [PATCH v6 05/14] riscv: implement ALTERNATIVE_2 macro Heiko Stuebner
2022-02-09 12:37 ` [PATCH v6 06/14] riscv: extend concatenated alternatives-lines to the same length Heiko Stuebner
2022-02-09 12:37 ` [PATCH v6 07/14] riscv: prevent compressed instructions in alternatives Heiko Stuebner
2022-03-08 0:47 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2022-02-09 12:37 ` [PATCH v6 08/14] riscv: move boot alternatives to a slightly earlier position Heiko Stuebner
2022-02-10 22:42 ` Atish Patra [this message]
2022-02-11 1:11 ` Heiko Stübner
2022-02-11 1:57 ` Atish Patra
2022-02-11 9:34 ` Heiko Stübner
2022-03-08 0:47 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2022-03-23 16:51 ` Heiko Stübner
2022-02-09 12:37 ` [PATCH v6 09/14] riscv: Fix accessing pfn bits in PTEs for non-32bit variants Heiko Stuebner
2022-02-09 12:37 ` [PATCH v6 10/14] riscv: add cpufeature handling via alternatives Heiko Stuebner
2022-02-09 12:37 ` [PATCH v6 11/14] dt-bindings: riscv: add MMU Standard Extensions support for Svpbmt Heiko Stuebner
2022-02-09 18:47 ` Rob Herring
2022-02-09 12:37 ` [PATCH v6 12/14] riscv: add RISC-V Svpbmt extension support Heiko Stuebner
2022-02-09 12:37 ` [PATCH v6 13/14] riscv: remove FIXMAP_PAGE_IO and fall back to its default value Heiko Stuebner
2022-02-09 12:38 ` [PATCH v6 14/14] riscv: add memory-type errata for T-Head Heiko Stuebner
2022-02-11 0:12 ` Atish Patra
2022-02-11 9:25 ` Heiko Stübner
2022-02-12 0:27 ` Atish Patra
2022-02-11 2:01 ` Atish Patra
2022-02-14 3:42 ` Samuel Holland
2022-02-09 17:49 ` [PATCH v6 00/14] riscv: support for Svpbmt and D1 memory types Jisheng Zhang
2022-02-09 23:44 ` Heiko Stübner
2022-02-10 16:01 ` Jisheng Zhang
2022-02-11 0:25 ` Atish Patra
2022-02-11 1:48 ` Atish Patra
2022-02-11 2:04 ` Heiko Stübner
2022-02-12 0:25 ` Atish Patra
2022-02-14 20:02 ` Heiko Stübner
2022-02-14 20:25 ` Atish Patra
2022-02-14 20:37 ` Heiko Stübner
2022-03-09 7:56 ` Guo Ren
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