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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/booting.txt | 45 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/memory.txt | 29 |
2 files changed, 58 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt index 98df4a03807e..a9691cc48fe3 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt @@ -115,9 +115,10 @@ Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met: External caches (if present) must be configured and disabled. - Architected timers - CNTFRQ must be programmed with the timer frequency. - If entering the kernel at EL1, CNTHCTL_EL2 must have EL1PCTEN (bit 0) - set where available. + CNTFRQ must be programmed with the timer frequency and CNTVOFF must + be programmed with a consistent value on all CPUs. If entering the + kernel at EL1, CNTHCTL_EL2 must have EL1PCTEN (bit 0) set where + available. - Coherency All CPUs to be booted by the kernel must be part of the same coherency @@ -130,30 +131,46 @@ Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met: the kernel image will be entered must be initialised by software at a higher exception level to prevent execution in an UNKNOWN state. +The requirements described above for CPU mode, caches, MMUs, architected +timers, coherency and system registers apply to all CPUs. All CPUs must +enter the kernel in the same exception level. + The boot loader is expected to enter the kernel on each CPU in the following manner: - The primary CPU must jump directly to the first instruction of the kernel image. The device tree blob passed by this CPU must contain - for each CPU node: - - 1. An 'enable-method' property. Currently, the only supported value - for this field is the string "spin-table". - - 2. A 'cpu-release-addr' property identifying a 64-bit, - zero-initialised memory location. + an 'enable-method' property for each cpu node. The supported + enable-methods are described below. It is expected that the bootloader will generate these device tree properties and insert them into the blob prior to kernel entry. -- Any secondary CPUs must spin outside of the kernel in a reserved area - of memory (communicated to the kernel by a /memreserve/ region in the +- CPUs with a "spin-table" enable-method must have a 'cpu-release-addr' + property in their cpu node. This property identifies a + naturally-aligned 64-bit zero-initalised memory location. + + These CPUs should spin outside of the kernel in a reserved area of + memory (communicated to the kernel by a /memreserve/ region in the device tree) polling their cpu-release-addr location, which must be contained in the reserved region. A wfe instruction may be inserted to reduce the overhead of the busy-loop and a sev will be issued by the primary CPU. When a read of the location pointed to by the - cpu-release-addr returns a non-zero value, the CPU must jump directly - to this value. + cpu-release-addr returns a non-zero value, the CPU must jump to this + value. The value will be written as a single 64-bit little-endian + value, so CPUs must convert the read value to their native endianness + before jumping to it. + +- CPUs with a "psci" enable method should remain outside of + the kernel (i.e. outside of the regions of memory described to the + kernel in the memory node, or in a reserved area of memory described + to the kernel by a /memreserve/ region in the device tree). The + kernel will issue CPU_ON calls as described in ARM document number ARM + DEN 0022A ("Power State Coordination Interface System Software on ARM + processors") to bring CPUs into the kernel. + + The device tree should contain a 'psci' node, as described in + Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/psci.txt. - Secondary CPU general-purpose register settings x0 = 0 (reserved for future use) diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt b/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt index 78a377124ef0..5e054bfe4dde 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ The swapper_pgd_dir address is written to TTBR1 and never written to TTBR0. -AArch64 Linux memory layout: +AArch64 Linux memory layout with 4KB pages: Start End Size Use ----------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -39,13 +39,38 @@ ffffffbffbc00000 ffffffbffbdfffff 2MB earlyprintk device ffffffbffbe00000 ffffffbffbe0ffff 64KB PCI I/O space -ffffffbbffff0000 ffffffbcffffffff ~2MB [guard] +ffffffbffbe10000 ffffffbcffffffff ~2MB [guard] ffffffbffc000000 ffffffbfffffffff 64MB modules ffffffc000000000 ffffffffffffffff 256GB kernel logical memory map +AArch64 Linux memory layout with 64KB pages: + +Start End Size Use +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +0000000000000000 000003ffffffffff 4TB user + +fffffc0000000000 fffffdfbfffeffff ~2TB vmalloc + +fffffdfbffff0000 fffffdfbffffffff 64KB [guard page] + +fffffdfc00000000 fffffdfdffffffff 8GB vmemmap + +fffffdfe00000000 fffffdfffbbfffff ~8GB [guard, future vmmemap] + +fffffdfffbc00000 fffffdfffbdfffff 2MB earlyprintk device + +fffffdfffbe00000 fffffdfffbe0ffff 64KB PCI I/O space + +fffffdfffbe10000 fffffdfffbffffff ~2MB [guard] + +fffffdfffc000000 fffffdffffffffff 64MB modules + +fffffe0000000000 ffffffffffffffff 2TB kernel logical memory map + + Translation table lookup with 4KB pages: +--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ |