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authorScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>2015-10-06 22:48:12 -0500
committerScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>2015-10-27 18:13:25 -0500
commitf34b3e19fd060b87e97c89050f2b40b8ada468a9 (patch)
treea4aad95d90cda53bd75398feef7e863284e14091 /arch/powerpc/kernel
parent939fbf00805b395743e2406755ca20f5f959a598 (diff)
powerpc/e6500: kexec: Handle hardware threads
The new kernel will be expecting secondary threads to be disabled, not spinning. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
index d48125d0c048..8b2bf0d3b7d1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -182,6 +182,8 @@ exception_marker:
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E
_GLOBAL(fsl_secondary_thread_init)
+ mfspr r4,SPRN_BUCSR
+
/* Enable branch prediction */
lis r3,BUCSR_INIT@h
ori r3,r3,BUCSR_INIT@l
@@ -196,10 +198,24 @@ _GLOBAL(fsl_secondary_thread_init)
* number. There are two threads per core, so shift everything
* but the low bit right by two bits so that the cpu numbering is
* continuous.
+ *
+ * If the old value of BUCSR is non-zero, this thread has run
+ * before. Thus, we assume we are coming from kexec or a similar
+ * scenario, and PIR is already set to the correct value. This
+ * is a bit of a hack, but there are limited opportunities for
+ * getting information into the thread and the alternatives
+ * seemed like they'd be overkill. We can't tell just by looking
+ * at the old PIR value which state it's in, since the same value
+ * could be valid for one thread out of reset and for a different
+ * thread in Linux.
*/
+
mfspr r3, SPRN_PIR
+ cmpwi r4,0
+ bne 1f
rlwimi r3, r3, 30, 2, 30
mtspr SPRN_PIR, r3
+1:
#endif
_GLOBAL(generic_secondary_thread_init)