[PATCH 0/1 RESEND] ARM: plat-versatile: move secondary CPU startup out of .init.

[PATCH 0/1 RESEND] ARM: plat-versatile: move secondary CPU startup out of .init.

[Claudio Fontana]

Hello,

I am implementing a new feature in QEMU, including virtual CPU hotplug
for the the ARM Cortex A-15 VExpress motherboard.
This new QEMU feature includes a new monitor command "smp_cpus_set",
which allows changing the number of visible CPUs in the guest.

I stumbled upon a limitation in the kernel support for plat-versatile,
which contains the secondary CPU startup code for the VExpress.

Basically, the secondary CPU startup code is preceded by the macro __INIT,
which causes the code to be freed in free_initmem() during kernel_init().

This means that any attempt at hot-booting CPUs in the guest results in
VCPUs jumping to a memory address that was freed, after which the VCPU
behaves erratically, as can be expected.

With this patch applied, we use __CPUINIT instead of __INIT, so that
the right thing happens:
under CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, the secondary CPU startup code is not freed,
the secondary VCPUs start successfully, and it's all gardens and blue skies.

Tested successfully using the ARM fast models for the Cortex-A15.

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Claudio Fontana (1):
  ARM: plat-versatile: move secondary CPU startup code out of .init.

 arch/arm/plat-versatile/headsmp.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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1.7.12.1

[PATCH 0/1 RESEND] ARM: plat-versatile: move secondary CPU startup out of .init.

[Claudio Fontana]

Hello,

I am implementing a new feature in QEMU, including virtual CPU hotplug
for the the ARM Cortex A-15 VExpress motherboard.
This new QEMU feature includes a new monitor command "smp_cpus_set",
which allows changing the number of visible CPUs in the guest.

I stumbled upon a limitation in the kernel support for plat-versatile,
which contains the secondary CPU startup code for the VExpress.

Basically, the secondary CPU startup code is preceded by the macro __INIT,
which causes the code to be freed in free_initmem() during kernel_init().

This means that any attempt at hot-booting CPUs in the guest results in
VCPUs jumping to a memory address that was freed, after which the VCPU
behaves erratically, as can be expected.

With this patch applied, we use __CPUINIT instead of __INIT, so that
the right thing happens:
under CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, the secondary CPU startup code is not freed,
the secondary VCPUs start successfully, and it's all gardens and blue skies.

Tested successfully using the ARM fast models for the Cortex-A15.

--
Claudio Fontana (1):
  ARM: plat-versatile: move secondary CPU startup code out of .init.

 arch/arm/plat-versatile/headsmp.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

-- 
1.7.12.1