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From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, ardb@kernel.org,
	broonie@kernel.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com, james.morse@arm.com,
	madvenka@linux.microsoft.com, maz@kernel.org,
	suzuki.poulose@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] arm64: boot cleanups
Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 23:16:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210526221641.GA20786@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210520115031.18509-1-mark.rutland@arm.com>

On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 12:50:25PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> This series (based on v5.13-rc1) reworks the way we initialize some state at
> boot time, simplifying and unifying the logic for primary and secondary CPUs.
> This allows us to initalize the per-cpu offsets earlier (which will help to
> enable KCSAN), and reduces the data we need to pass to a secondary. In future,
> this should allow us to transfer the secondary data atomically and make the
> secondary boot paths more robust to arbitrarily long delays.
> 
> I've based this on Mahdavan's stacktrace termination patch [1] (duplicated here
> unchanged), since it made sense to combine the unwind initialization along with
> the other CPU state, and otherwise there would be non-trivial merge conflicts.
> 
> I've given the series some boot testing with a variety of configurations,
> checking that stacktraces work correctly, etc.

Thanks. I've already got the stack trace patch queued on
for-next/stacktrace, so I've merged that branch into a new for-next/boot
branch and put the remainder of the patches on top of that.

Will

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-26 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-20 11:50 [PATCH 0/6] arm64: boot cleanups Mark Rutland
2021-05-20 11:50 ` [PATCH 1/6] arm64: Implement stack trace termination record Mark Rutland
2021-05-20 11:50 ` [PATCH 2/6] arm64: assembler: add set_this_cpu_offset Mark Rutland
2021-05-20 11:50 ` [PATCH 3/6] arm64: smp: remove pointless secondary_data maintenance Mark Rutland
2021-05-20 11:50 ` [PATCH 4/6] arm64: smp: remove stack from secondary_data Mark Rutland
2021-05-20 11:50 ` [PATCH 5/6] arm64: smp: unify task and sp setup Mark Rutland
2021-05-20 11:50 ` [PATCH 6/6] arm64: smp: initialize cpu offset earlier Mark Rutland
2021-05-20 14:46 ` [PATCH 0/6] arm64: boot cleanups Ard Biesheuvel
2021-05-26 22:16 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2021-05-27  9:33   ` Mark Rutland

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