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authorMorten Rasmussen <Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com>2012-09-14 14:38:13 +0100
committerJon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>2013-07-17 11:12:25 +0100
commitdc68bd92107d8990f4608d8f42744770fe203f7f (patch)
tree2b866272cb92a68c63e4890f5506ac7841d8c2c7
parentd278bb1c4d5191e0d9b9911337e3b31a100a7f9f (diff)
ARM: sched: Use device-tree to provide fast/slow CPU list for HMP
We can't rely on Kconfig options to set the fast and slow CPU lists for HMP scheduling if we want a single kernel binary to support multiple devices with different CPU topology. E.g. TC2 (ARM's Test-Chip-2 big.LITTLE system), Fast Models, or even non big.LITTLE devices. This patch adds the function arch_get_fast_and_slow_cpus() to generate the lists at run-time by parsing the CPU nodes in device-tree; it assumes slow cores are A7s and everything else is fast. The function still supports the old Kconfig options as this is useful for testing the HMP scheduler on devices without big.LITTLE. This patch is reuse of a patch by Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org> with a few bits left out. Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/Kconfig4
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/topology.c69
2 files changed, 72 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 99d41f9633b..bc19fa61b90 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1528,13 +1528,15 @@ config HMP_FAST_CPU_MASK
string "HMP scheduler fast CPU mask"
depends on SCHED_HMP
help
- Specify the cpuids of the fast CPUs in the system as a list string,
+ Leave empty to use device tree information.
+ Specify the cpuids of the fast CPUs in the system as a list string,
e.g. cpuid 0+1 should be specified as 0-1.
config HMP_SLOW_CPU_MASK
string "HMP scheduler slow CPU mask"
depends on SCHED_HMP
help
+ Leave empty to use device tree information.
Specify the cpuids of the slow CPUs in the system as a list string,
e.g. cpuid 0+1 should be specified as 0-1.
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
index c5a59546a25..e6e430a567c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
@@ -289,6 +289,75 @@ void store_cpu_topology(unsigned int cpuid)
cpu_topology[cpuid].socket_id, mpidr);
}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_HMP
+
+static const char * const little_cores[] = {
+ "arm,cortex-a7",
+ NULL,
+};
+
+static bool is_little_cpu(struct device_node *cn)
+{
+ const char * const *lc;
+ for (lc = little_cores; *lc; lc++)
+ if (of_device_is_compatible(cn, *lc))
+ return true;
+ return false;
+}
+
+void __init arch_get_fast_and_slow_cpus(struct cpumask *fast,
+ struct cpumask *slow)
+{
+ struct device_node *cn = NULL;
+ int cpu = 0;
+
+ cpumask_clear(fast);
+ cpumask_clear(slow);
+
+ /*
+ * Use the config options if they are given. This helps testing
+ * HMP scheduling on systems without a big.LITTLE architecture.
+ */
+ if (strlen(CONFIG_HMP_FAST_CPU_MASK) && strlen(CONFIG_HMP_SLOW_CPU_MASK)) {
+ if (cpulist_parse(CONFIG_HMP_FAST_CPU_MASK, fast))
+ WARN(1, "Failed to parse HMP fast cpu mask!\n");
+ if (cpulist_parse(CONFIG_HMP_SLOW_CPU_MASK, slow))
+ WARN(1, "Failed to parse HMP slow cpu mask!\n");
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Else, parse device tree for little cores.
+ */
+ while ((cn = of_find_node_by_type(cn, "cpu"))) {
+
+ if (cpu >= num_possible_cpus())
+ break;
+
+ if (is_little_cpu(cn))
+ cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, slow);
+ else
+ cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, fast);
+
+ cpu++;
+ }
+
+ if (!cpumask_empty(fast) && !cpumask_empty(slow))
+ return;
+
+ /*
+ * We didn't find both big and little cores so let's call all cores
+ * fast as this will keep the system running, with all cores being
+ * treated equal.
+ */
+ cpumask_setall(fast);
+ cpumask_clear(slow);
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_SCHED_HMP */
+
+
/*
* init_cpu_topology is called at boot when only one cpu is running
* which prevent simultaneous write access to cpu_topology array