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    MIPS: CPS: Handle spurious VP starts more gracefully · fa7a3b4a
    Paul Burton authored
    On pre-r6 systems with the MT ASE the CPS SMP code included checks to
    halt the VPE running mips_cps_boot_vpes() if its bit in the struct
    core_boot_config vpe_mask field is clear. This was largely done in order
    to allow us to start arbitrary VPEs within a core despite the fact that
    hardware is typically configured to run only VPE0 after powering up a
    core. VPE0 would start the desired other VPEs, halt itself, and the fact
    that VPE0 started would be largely hidden & irrelevant.
    
    In MIPSr6 multithreading we have control over which VPs start executing
    when a core powers up via the cores CPC registers accessed remotely
    through the redirect block. For this reason the MIPSr6 multithreading
    path in mips_cps_boot_vpes() hasn't bothered up until now to handle
    halting the VP running it.
    
    However it is possible to power up cores entirely in hardware by using a
    pwr_up pin associated with the core. Unfortunately some systems wire
    this pin to a logic 1, which means that it is possible for a core to
    power up at a point that software doesn't expect. The result is that we
    generally go execute the kernel on a CPU that ought not to be running &
    the results can be unpredictable.
    
    Handle this case by stopping VPs that we don't expect to be running in
    mips_cps_boot_vpes() - with this change even if a core powers up it will
    do nothing useful & all VPs within it will stop running before they
    proceed to run general kernel code & do any damage. Ideally we would
    produce some sort of warning here, but given the stage of core bringup
    this happens at that would be non-trivial. We also will only hit this if
    a core starts up after being offlined via hotplug, and when that happens
    we will already produce a warning that the CPU didn't power down in
    cps_cpu_die() which seems sufficient.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
    Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
    Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16198/Signed-off-by: default avatarRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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