Re: [PATCH RFC v3 16/21] arm64: psci: Ignore DENIED CPUs

Jonathan Cameron
2023-12-15T16:40:31Z

On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 12:50:33 +0000
Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:

> From: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
>
> When a CPU is marked as disabled, but online capable in the MADT, PSCI
> applies some firmware policy to control when it can be brought online.
> PSCI returns DENIED to a CPU_ON request if this is not currently
> permitted. The OS can learn the current policy from the _STA enabled bit.
>
> Handle the PSCI DENIED return code gracefully instead of printing an
> error.
>
> See https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0022/f/?lang=en page 58.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
> [ morse: Rewrote commit message ]
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> Tested-by: Miguel Luis <miguel.luis@oracle.com>
> Tested-by: Vishnu Pajjuri <vishnu@os.amperecomputing.com>
> Tested-by: Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>