Re: [PATCH v9 0/8] Parallel CPU bringup for x86_64

[Oleksandr Natalenko]

Hello.

On středa 15. února 2023 15:54:17 CET Usama Arif wrote:
> The main change over v8 is dropping the patch to avoid repeated saves of MTRR
> at boot time. It didn't make a difference to smpboot time and is independent
> of parallel CPU bringup, so if needed can be explored in a separate patchset.
> 
> The patches have also been rebased to v6.2-rc8 and retested and the
> improvement in boot time is the same as v8.
> 
> Thanks,
> Usama
> 
> Changes across versions:
> v2: Cut it back to just INIT/SIPI/SIPI in parallel for now, nothing more
> v3: Clean up x2apic patch, add MTRR optimisation, lock topology update
>     in preparation for more parallelisation.
> v4: Fixes to the real mode parallelisation patch spotted by SeanC, to
>     avoid scribbling on initial_gs in common_cpu_up(), and to allow all
>     24 bits of the physical X2APIC ID to be used. That patch still needs
>     a Signed-off-by from its original author, who once claimed not to
>     remember writing it at all. But now we've fixed it, hopefully he'll
>     admit it now :)
> v5: rebase to v6.1 and remeasure performance, disable parallel bringup
>     for AMD CPUs.
> v6: rebase to v6.2-rc6, disabled parallel boot on amd as a cpu bug and
>     reused timer calibration for secondary CPUs.
> v7: [David Woodhouse] iterate over all possible CPUs to find any existing
>     cluster mask in alloc_clustermask. (patch 1/9)
>     Keep parallel AMD support enabled in AMD, using APIC ID in CPUID leaf
>     0x0B (for x2APIC mode) or CPUID leaf 0x01 where 8 bits are sufficient.
>     Included sanity checks for APIC id from 0x0B. (patch 6/9)
>     Removed patch for reusing timer calibration for secondary CPUs.
>     commit message and code improvements.
> v8: Fix CPU0 hotplug by setting up the initial_gs, initial_stack and
>     early_gdt_descr.
>     Drop trampoline lock and bail if APIC ID not found in find_cpunr.
>     Code comments improved and debug prints added.
> v9: Drop patch to avoid repeated saves of MTRR at boot time.
>     rebased and retested at v6.2-rc8.
>     added kernel doc for no_parallel_bringup and made do_parallel_bringup
>     __ro_after_init.
> 
> David Woodhouse (8):
>   x86/apic/x2apic: Allow CPU cluster_mask to be populated in parallel
>   cpu/hotplug: Move idle_thread_get() to <linux/smpboot.h>
>   cpu/hotplug: Add dynamic parallel bringup states before
>     CPUHP_BRINGUP_CPU
>   x86/smpboot: Reference count on smpboot_setup_warm_reset_vector()
>   x86/smpboot: Split up native_cpu_up into separate phases and document
>     them
>   x86/smpboot: Support parallel startup of secondary CPUs
>   x86/smpboot: Send INIT/SIPI/SIPI to secondary CPUs in parallel
>   x86/smpboot: Serialize topology updates for secondary bringup
> 
>  .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt         |   3 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/realmode.h               |   3 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h                    |  14 +-
>  arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h               |   2 -
>  arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c                  |   1 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c                   |   2 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_cluster.c         | 130 ++++---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c                  |   6 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S                     |  99 ++++-
>  arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c                     | 350 +++++++++++++-----
>  arch/x86/realmode/init.c                      |   3 +
>  arch/x86/realmode/rm/trampoline_64.S          |  14 +
>  arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c                         |   4 +-
>  include/linux/cpuhotplug.h                    |   2 +
>  include/linux/smpboot.h                       |   7 +
>  kernel/cpu.c                                  |  31 +-
>  kernel/smpboot.c                              |   2 +-
>  kernel/smpboot.h                              |   2 -
>  18 files changed, 515 insertions(+), 160 deletions(-)

I've applied this to the v6.2 kernel, and suspend/resume broke on my Ryzen 5950X desktop. The machine suspends just fine, but on resume the screen stays blank, and there's no visible disk I/O.

Reverting the series brings suspend/resume back to working state.

-- 
Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)