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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/7] xen/arm: CPU hotplug fixes



Hi Mirela,

Thank you for sending the series.

On 11/04/18 14:19, Mirela Simonovic wrote:
This patch set contains fixes required to enable CPU hotplug for secondary CPUs.
CPU hotplug of secondary CPUs will be used for suspend to RAM support for ARM.

With these patches calling disable_nonboot_cpus() from the boot CPU will cause
all secondary CPUs to be stopped. When a CPU is stopped it will issue the PSCI
CPU_OFF call to the EL3. The calling CPU will be powered down if the underlying
firmware allows so. If the CPU_OFF is not supported by the underlying firmware
the calling CPU will stay in infinite WFI loop. When secondary CPUs are stopped
all interrupts targeted to them are migrated to the boot CPU.
Calling enable_nonboot_cpus() from the boot CPU will cause all secondary CPUs
to be hotplugged. When a CPU is hotplugged the interrupts' affinity is restored.

I think this patch series is not complete. While it may work for you there are a few corner cases that will result to leak some memory everytime you turn off/on the CPU. This is the case of page-table, action associated to local IRQ.... I don't have a full list, but basically you need to ensured that anything that was initialized during the CPU boot are freed/reverted. You probably want to look at my answer you on your design document [1] for more details.

I also don't see any code migrating Xen interrupt from the CPU that is going to be turned off to the other. Is it something you are going to plan for the future?


Calls to enable/disable_nonboot_cpus() functions currently don't exist in
Xen ARM code. This will be added with the suspend to RAM support for ARM.

What would be the way to test that series?


The code is tested on Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC/ZCU102 board (includes
physical power down/up of secondary CPUs).

Mirela Simonovic (7):
   xen/arm: Added handling of the trapped access to OSLSR register
   xen/arm/vgic-v2: Ignore write to GICD_ISACTIVERn registers
   xen/arm/psci: Implement CPU_OFF PSCI call (physical interface)
   xen/arm: When CPU dies, free percpu area immediatelly
   xen/arm: Remove __initdata and __init to enable CPU hotplug
   xen/arm: Setup virtual paging for secondary CPUs in non-boot scenario
   xen/arm: Restore IRQ affinity after hotplugging a CPU

  xen/arch/arm/arm64/smpboot.c   |  2 +-
  xen/arch/arm/arm64/vsysreg.c   |  3 ++-
  xen/arch/arm/irq.c             |  2 +-
  xen/arch/arm/p2m.c             | 10 ++++++++--
  xen/arch/arm/percpu.c          |  2 +-
  xen/arch/arm/processor.c       |  2 +-
  xen/arch/arm/psci.c            |  5 +++++
  xen/arch/arm/smpboot.c         | 14 ++++++++++++--
  xen/arch/arm/vgic-v2.c         |  3 +--
  xen/common/schedule.c          |  4 ++++
  xen/include/asm-arm/p2m.h      |  3 +++
  xen/include/asm-arm/procinfo.h |  4 ++--
  xen/include/asm-arm/psci.h     |  1 +
  13 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)


Cheers,

[1] See [RFC v2] xen/arm: Suspend to RAM Support in Xen for ARM

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Julien Grall

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