ARM: b.L: core switcher code

The main entry point for a switch request is:

void bL_switch_request(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int new_cluster_id)

If the calling CPU is not the wanted one, this wrapper takes care of
sending the request to the appropriate CPU with schedule_work_on().
In the future, some switching related tasks which do not require a
strict CPU affinity might be moved here though.

At the moment the core switch operation is handled by bL_switch_to()
which must be called on the CPU for which a switch is requested.

What this code does:

  * Return early if the current cluster is the wanted one.

  * Close the gate in the kernel entry vector for both the inbound
    and outbound CPUs.

  * Wake up the inbound CPU so it can perform its reset sequence in
    parallel up to the kernel entry vector gate.

  * Migrate all interrupts in the GIC targeting the outbound CPU
    interface to the inbound CPU interface, including SGIs. This is
    performed by gic_migrate_target() in arch/arm/common/gic.c.

  * Shut down the local timer for the outbound CPU.

  * Call cpu_pm_enter() which takes care of flushing the VFP state to
    RAM and save the CPU interface config from the GIC to RAM.

  * Call cpu_suspend() which saves the CPU state (general purpose
    registers, page table address) onto the stack and store the
    resulting stack pointer in an array indexed by processor number,
    then call the provided shutdown function.  This happens in
    arch/arm/kernel/sleep.S.

At this point, the provided shutdown function executed by the outbound
CPU ungates the inbound CPU. Therefore the inbound CPU:

  * Picks up the saved stack pointer in the array indexed by
    processor number above. At the moment the corresponding code in
    arch/arm/kernel/sleep.S only looks at the CPU number field in the
     MPIDR so the current code works unmodified even if the new CPU
     comes from a different cluster.

  * The MMU and caches are re-enabled using the saved state on the
    provided stack, just like if this was a resume operation from a
    suspended state.

  * Then cpu_suspend() returns, although this is on the inbound CPU
    rather than the outbound CPU which called it initially.

  * The function cpu_pm_exit() is called which effect is to restore the
    CPU interface state in the GIC using the state previously saved by
    the outbound CPU.

  * The local timer on the inbound CPU is restored.

  * Exit of bL_switch_to() to resume normal kernel execution on the
    new CPU.

However, the outbound CPU is potentially still running in parallel while
the inbound CPU is resuming normal kernel execution, hence we need
per CPU stack isolation to execute bL_do_switch().  After the outbound
CPU has ungated the inbound CPU, it calls bL_cpu_power_down() to:

  * Clean its L1 cache.

  * If it is the last CPU still alive in its cluster (last man standing),
    it also cleans its L2 cache and disables cache snooping from the other
    cluster.

Code called from bL_do_switch() might end up referencing 'current' for
some reasons.  However, 'current' is derived from the stack pointer.
With any arbitrary stack, the returned value for 'current' and any
dereferenced values through it are just random garbage which may lead to
segmentation faults.

The active page table during the execution of bL_do_switch() is also a
problem.  There is no guarantee that the inbound CPU won't destroy the
corresponding task which would free the attached page table while the
outbound CPU is still running and relying on it.

To solve both issues, we borrow some of the task space belonging to
the init/idle task which, by its nature, is lightly used and therefore
is unlikely to clash with our usage.  The init task is also never going
away.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>

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diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 7caf8ddea04..c5fd434a0d1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1607,6 +1607,23 @@ config MCPM
 	  for (multi-)cluster based systems, such as big.LITTLE based
 	  systems.
 
+config BIG_LITTLE
+	bool "big.LITTLE support (Experimental)"
+	depends on CPU_V7 && SMP
+	select MCPM
+	help
+	  This option enables support for the big.LITTLE architecture.
+
+config BL_SWITCHER
+	bool "big.LITTLE switcher support"
+	depends on BIG_LITTLE && MCPM && HOTPLUG_CPU
+	select CPU_PM
+	select ARM_CPU_SUSPEND
+	help
+	  The big.LITTLE "switcher" provides the core functionality to
+	  transparently handle transition between a cluster of A15's
+	  and a cluster of A7's in a big.LITTLE system.
+
 choice
 	prompt "Memory split"
 	default VMSPLIT_3G