Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] arm64: Initial Realtek RTD1295 enablement

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 12:09 AM, Andreas Färber [off-list ref] wrote:

Am 14.05.2017 um 04:24 schrieb Andreas Färber:

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This mini-series adds initial support for the Realtek RTD1295 SoC and
the Zidoo X9S TV box.

v3 changes #address-cells, #size-cells and ranges.

With these patches CPU0 can be booted with earlycon.

PSCI doesn't work despite present in the vendor device tree; as enable-method
it instead used a custom "rtk-spin-table" that I sadly have no source code of.

Synology has now published source code for RTD1293/1296. This has
allowed me to narrow the RTD1295 CPU1..3 issue down to two changes in
arch/arm64/kernel/smp_spin_table.c:smp_spin_table_cpu_prepare():

1) writel_relaxed() instead of writeq_relaxed()
2) ioremap() instead of ioremap_cache()

Without those changes it hangs in earlycon after this line:
[    0.043674] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3,
32768 bytes)

The size difference sounds easy enough - we could introduce an optional
cpu-release-size property to handle this or derive a "spin-table-32bit"
enable-method to that effect.

The second one appears to be caused by PROT_NORMAL vs.
PROT_DEVICE_nGnRE. Is there any simple check we could do on
cpu-release-addr to choose which MT to use?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=113954c6463d1d80a206e91627ae49711f8b47cd

Any other ideas?

I think we had a similar problem before and concluded that something
requiring a write into an MMIO register is simply not a spin-table
implementation but something else.

Is this simply using a copy of the spin-table code to trigger the actual
booting of the secondary CPU? Can you identify the MMIO address?

      Arnd