ARM/SMP, Some patches for review.
Łukasz Płachno
luk at semihalf.com
Thu Nov 22 14:52:14 UTC 2012
On 21.11.2012 17:00, Giovanni Trematerra wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Łukasz Płachno <luk at semihalf.com> wrote:
>> On 20.11.2012 00:08, Giovanni Trematerra wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Łukasz Płachno <luk at semihalf.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to propose few changes for ARM specific code.
>>>> Three attached patches for freebsd-current allows building SMP-safe world
>>>> for ARM targets and turns on TEX remap for ARMv6 and ARMv7 targets.
>>>>
>>>> More details inside patch files.
>>>>
>>>> Change introduced by "commit-2" removes armv7 targets (armv7 and pj4b)
>>>> from
>>>> kernel.tramp.
>>>> AFAIK this feature is not working properly for armv7 targets and is
>>>> causing
>>>> problem during compilation:
>>>> - LOCORE is defined during kernel compilation but not defined during
>>>> kernel.tramp compilation, so #include pmap.h causes build errors.
>>>>
>>>> I do not think adding hack like this:
>>>> #ifndef LOCORE
>>>> #define LOCORE
>>>> #endif
>>>>
>>>> to allow building something that is already broken is a good idea, so I
>>>> removed cpufunc_asm_pj4b.S and cpufunc_asm_armv7.S from Makefile.arm
>>>
>>>
>>> In commit-2.txt
>>> you should include style changes in sys/arm/arm/cpufunc_asm_armv7.S
>>> into a different patch.
>>
>>
>> fixed
>>
>>
>>>
>>> @@ -63,7 +64,6 @@ FILES_CPU_FUNC = $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_arm7tdmi.S \
>>> $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_xscale.S $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm.S \
>>> $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_xscale_c3.S $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_armv5_ec.S
>>> \
>>> $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_fa526.S $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_sheeva.S \
>>> - $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_pj4b.S $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_armv7.S
>>>
>>> You left a trailing back slash but beside that you should clean up
>>> sys/arm/arm/elf_trampoline.c
>>> and not make kernel.tramp to build at all for armv7 cpus or you'll end
>>> up with a linker error
>>> during generation of the kernel.tramp.
>>>
>>
>> Fixed, updated set of patches is attached.
>>
>> - TEX remap is supported only for armv6 (changed to avoid breaking armv6
>> targets)
>> - Fixed issues with build for pre-armv6 targets (tested with make tinderbox
>> TARGETS=arm
>>
>
> 1_SMP_fixes.diff
> You'll endup to get a panic for PandaBoard systems.
> The arm11 functions don't handle the SMP case.
> So I propose to merge the changes below or commit them first.
>
> Index: sys/arm/arm/cpufunc.c
> ===================================================================
> --- sys/arm/arm/cpufunc.c (revision 243182)
> +++ sys/arm/arm/cpufunc.c (working copy)
> @@ -1079,18 +1079,18 @@ struct cpu_functions cortexa_cpufuncs = {
> /* Other functions */
>
> cpufunc_nullop, /* flush_prefetchbuf */
> - arm11_drain_writebuf, /* drain_writebuf */
> + armv7_drain_writebuf, /* drain_writebuf */
> cpufunc_nullop, /* flush_brnchtgt_C */
> (void *)cpufunc_nullop, /* flush_brnchtgt_E */
>
> - arm11_sleep, /* sleep */
> + armv7_cpu_sleep, /* sleep */
>
> /* Soft functions */
>
> cpufunc_null_fixup, /* dataabt_fixup */
> cpufunc_null_fixup, /* prefetchabt_fixup */
>
> - arm11_context_switch, /* context_switch */
> + armv7_context_switch, /* context_switch */
>
> cortexa_setup /* cpu setup */
> };
>
I agree, but with this change I included also:
diff --git a/sys/arm/arm/cpufunc.c b/sys/arm/arm/cpufunc.c
index dd43c27..1d6f93f 100644
--- a/sys/arm/arm/cpufunc.c
+++ b/sys/arm/arm/cpufunc.c
@@ -1049,14 +1049,14 @@ struct cpu_functions cortexa_cpufuncs = {
armv7_tlb_flushID, /* tlb_flushID */
armv7_tlb_flushID_SE, /* tlb_flushID_SE */
- arm11_tlb_flushI, /* tlb_flushI */
- arm11_tlb_flushI_SE, /* tlb_flushI_SE */
- arm11_tlb_flushD, /* tlb_flushD */
- arm11_tlb_flushD_SE, /* tlb_flushD_SE */
+ armv7_tlb_flushID, /* tlb_flushI */
+ armv7_tlb_flushID_SE, /* tlb_flushI_SE */
+ armv7_tlb_flushID, /* tlb_flushD */
+ armv7_tlb_flushID_SE, /* tlb_flushD_SE */
Changes merged into patch 1_SMP_fixes.diff
>
> 2_ARM_cleanup.diff
> Changes to sys/arm/arm/machdep.c don't seem style changes and
> they should live in a separate patch with a different motivation.
>
> I'm not sure changes in sys/arm/arm/locore.S are style ones.
None of changes in this patch are related to style. In this patch I
wanted to improve code readability, not remove style conflicts.
>
> I think that things like this aren't so readable.
> #if (ARM_ARCH_6 + ARM_ARCH_7A) != 0
>
> Instead of things like that wouldn't be better to define different
> macros when the sum is zero or non zero and stick with the
> #if defined/!defined thing?
>
> I mean in sys/arm/arm/cpuconf.h we could make something like this
>
> #if (ARM_ARCH_6 + ARM_ARCH_7A) != 0
> #define ARM_ARCH_6_7A
> #endif
Changed to ARM_ARCH_6_7A
>
> 3_kernel_trampoline.diff
> I think we should not make kernel_trampoline at all for the unsupported CPUs.
> I propose this change to Makefile.arm
>
> Index: sys/conf/Makefile.arm
> ===================================================================
> --- sys/conf/Makefile.arm (revision 243182)
> +++ sys/conf/Makefile.arm (working copy)
> @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ SYSTEM_LD_TAIL +=;sed s/" + SIZEOF_HEADERS"// ldsc
> ${SYSTEM_LD_}; \
> ${OBJCOPY} -S -O binary ${FULLKERNEL}.noheader \
> ${KERNEL_KO}.bin; \
> + ${NM} ${FULLKERNEL}.noheader | sort > ${FULLKERNEL}.map; \
> rm ${FULLKERNEL}.noheader
>
> .if defined(MFS_IMAGE)
> @@ -62,9 +63,11 @@ FILES_CPU_FUNC = $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_arm7tdmi.S \
> $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_sa1.S $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_arm10.S \
> $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_xscale.S $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm.S \
> $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_xscale_c3.S $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_armv5_ec.S \
> $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_fa526.S $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_sheeva.S \
> - $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_pj4b.S $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_armv7.S
> + $S/$M/$M/cpufunc_asm_armv6.S
>
> +NO_TRAMP!= grep 'CPU_CORTEXA\|CPU_MV_PJ4B' opt_global.h || true ; echo
> +
> +.if ${NO_TRAMP} == ""
> KERNEL_EXTRA=trampoline
> KERNEL_EXTRA_INSTALL=kernel.gz.tramp
> trampoline: ${KERNEL_KO}.tramp
> @@ -110,6 +113,7 @@ ${KERNEL_KO}.tramp: ${KERNEL_KO} $S/$M/$M/inckern.
> ${KERNEL_KO}.gz.tramp.bin
> rm ${KERNEL_KO}.tmp.gz ${KERNEL_KO}.tramp.noheader opt_kernname.h \
> inflate-tramp.o tmphack.S
> +.endif
>
> MKMODULESENV+= MACHINE=${MACHINE}
>
Change merged into commit 3.
> 4_tex-remap.diff
> Some style(9) consideration.
> #include(s) should be grouped together in alphabetical order.
> So you should fix the pmap.h includes that you made.
>
#defines reordered
> I'll try to test the pachset ASAP.
>
New set of patches attached.
Regards,
Łukasz Płachno
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