Re: [PATCH] allwinner-h3: Switch to SMC as PSCI conduit

[Niek Linnenbank]

Hi Alexander,

I've tested your patch on the acceptance tests and they all pass:

ARMBIAN_ARTIFACTS_CACHED=yes AVOCADO_ALLOW_LARGE_STORAGE=yes avocado --show=app,console run -t machine:orangepi-pc tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py

...

RESULTS    : PASS 5 | ERROR 0 | FAIL 0 | SKIP 0 | WARN 0 | INTERRUPT 0 | CANCEL 0
JOB TIME   : 116.08 s

Also the latest linux kernel is working OK with all cores booting up fine.

At first I couldn't really figure out why simply changing the conduit there works, without also changing the Linux kernel to match.

But it turns out we just override the provided DTB for this in fdt_add_psci_node() in hw/arm/boot.c and the Linux kernel then uses that to decide between HVC and SMC.

So looks fine to me:

  Reviewed-by: Niek Linnenbank <nieklinnenbank@gmail.com>

  Tested-by: Niek Linnenbank <nieklinnenbank@gmail.com>

Regards,

Niek

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 10:39 PM Alexander Graf <agraf@csgraf.de> wrote:

The Allwinner H3 SoC uses Cortex-A7 cores which support virtualization.
However, today we are configuring QEMU to use HVC as PSCI conduit.

That means HVC calls get trapped into QEMU instead of the guest's own
emulated CPU and thus break the guest's ability to execute virtualization.

Fix this by moving to SMC as conduit, freeing up HYP completely to the VM.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@csgraf.de>
Fixes: 740dafc0ba0 ("hw/arm: add Allwinner H3 System-on-Chip")
---
 hw/arm/allwinner-h3.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/arm/allwinner-h3.c b/hw/arm/allwinner-h3.c
index 27f1070145..f9b7ed1871 100644
--- a/hw/arm/allwinner-h3.c
+++ b/hw/arm/allwinner-h3.c
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ static void allwinner_h3_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)

         /* Provide Power State Coordination Interface */
         qdev_prop_set_int32(DEVICE(&s->cpus[i]), "psci-conduit",
-                            QEMU_PSCI_CONDUIT_HVC);
+                            QEMU_PSCI_CONDUIT_SMC);

         /* Disable secondary CPUs */
         qdev_prop_set_bit(DEVICE(&s->cpus[i]), "start-powered-off",
--
2.30.1 (Apple Git-130)

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Niek Linnenbank