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    ARM: vexpress: tc2: fix hotplug/idle/kexec race on cluster power down · 64270d82
    Lorenzo Pieralisi authored
    On the TC2 testchip, when all CPUs in a cluster enter standbywfi
    and commit a power down request, the power controller will wait
    for standbywfil2 coming from L2 cache controller to shut the
    cluster down.
    By the time all CPUs in a cluster commit a power down request
    and enter wfi, the power controller cannot backtrack, or put it
    another way, a CPU must not be allowed to complete execution
    independently of the power controller, the only way for it to
    resume properly must be upon wake-up IRQ pending and subsequent
    reset triggered from the power controller.
    
    Current MCPM back-end for TC2 disables the GIC CPU IF only when
    power down is committed through the tc2_pm_suspend() method, that
    makes sense since a suspended CPU is still online and can receive
    interrupts whereas a hotplugged CPU, since it is offline,
    migrated all IRQs and shutdown the per-CPU peripherals, hence
    their PPIs.
    
    The flaw with this reasoning is the following. If all CPUs in
    a clusters are entering a power down state either through CPU
    idle or CPU hotplug, when the last man successfully completes
    the MCPM power down sequence (and executes wfi), power controller
    waits for L2 wfi signal to quiesce the cluster and shut it down.
    If, when all CPUs are sitting in wfi, an online CPU hotplugs back
    in one of the CPUs in the cluster being shutdown, that CPU
    receives an IPI that causes wfi to complete (since tc2_pm_down()
    method does not disable the GIC CPU IF in that case - CPU being
    hotplugged out, not idle) and the power controller will never see
    the stanbywfil2 signal coming from L2 that is required for
    shutdown to happen and the system deadlocks.
    
    Further to this issue, kexec hotplugs secondary CPUs out during
    kernel reload/restart.
    Because kexec may (deliberately) trash the old kernel text, it is
    not OK for CPUs to follow the MCPM soft reboot path, since
    instructions after the WFI may have been replaced by kexec.
    
    If tc2_pm_down() does not disable the GIC cpu interface, there is a
    race between CPU powerdown in the old kernel and the IPI from the
    new kernel that triggers secondary boot, particularly if the
    powerdown is slow (due to L2 cache cleaning for example).  If the
    new kernel wins the race, the affected CPU(s) will not really be
    reset and may execute garbage after the WFI.
    
    The only solution to this problem consists in disabling the GIC
    CPU IF on a CPU committed to power down regardless of the power
    down entry method (CPU hotplug or CPU idle). This way, CPU wake-up
    is under power controller control, which prevents unexpected wfi
    exit caused by a pending IRQ.
    
    This patch moves the GIC CPU IF disable call in the TC2 MCPM
    implementation from the tc2_pm_suspend() method to the
    tc2_pm_down() method to fix the mentioned race condition(s).
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
    Tested-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> (for kexec)
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarNicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
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