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Setting PC for and waking up secondary cores from the primary core

Given a multiprocessor system, how are the PC values of secondary cores set from the primary core? I've read lots of threads stating it can be done but without any details. I could not find anything in the ARMv8 reference manual.

One might contrive a mailbox system where the secondary cores wfe and check the value of a mailbox address when woken up. But is there a supported method to directly write the secondary core PC before waking it up? What are the various methods for "waking up" a core?

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  • Hi ,

    In my case I see qemu emulates PSCI called with HVC.

    You can ask qemu to dump the dtb with:

    qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt,dumpdtb=dump.dtb -smp 4 ...

    Then you can "disassemble" the dtb with:

    dtc -o dump.dts -I dtb -O dts --sort dump.dtb

    You will see the cpu nodes in there referring to PSCI:

            cpus {
                    #address-cells = <0x01>;
                    #size-cells = <0x00>;
    
                    cpu@0 {
                            compatible = "arm,cortex-a72";
                            device_type = "cpu";
                            enable-method = "psci";
                            reg = <0x00>;
                    };
    
                    cpu@1 {
                            compatible = "arm,cortex-a72";
                            device_type = "cpu";
                            enable-method = "psci";
                            reg = <0x01>;
                    };
    
                    cpu@2 {
                            compatible = "arm,cortex-a72";
                            device_type = "cpu";
                            enable-method = "psci";
                            reg = <0x02>;
                    };
    
                    cpu@3 {
                            compatible = "arm,cortex-a72";
                            device_type = "cpu";
                            enable-method = "psci";
                            reg = <0x03>;
                    };
            };
    
    ...
    
            psci {
                    compatible = "arm,psci-0.2\0arm,psci";
                    cpu_off = <0x84000002>;
                    cpu_on = <0xc4000003>;
                    cpu_suspend = <0xc4000001>;
                    method = "hvc";
                    migrate = <0xc4000005>;
            };

    Best regards,

    Vincent.

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  • Hi ,

    In my case I see qemu emulates PSCI called with HVC.

    You can ask qemu to dump the dtb with:

    qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt,dumpdtb=dump.dtb -smp 4 ...

    Then you can "disassemble" the dtb with:

    dtc -o dump.dts -I dtb -O dts --sort dump.dtb

    You will see the cpu nodes in there referring to PSCI:

            cpus {
                    #address-cells = <0x01>;
                    #size-cells = <0x00>;
    
                    cpu@0 {
                            compatible = "arm,cortex-a72";
                            device_type = "cpu";
                            enable-method = "psci";
                            reg = <0x00>;
                    };
    
                    cpu@1 {
                            compatible = "arm,cortex-a72";
                            device_type = "cpu";
                            enable-method = "psci";
                            reg = <0x01>;
                    };
    
                    cpu@2 {
                            compatible = "arm,cortex-a72";
                            device_type = "cpu";
                            enable-method = "psci";
                            reg = <0x02>;
                    };
    
                    cpu@3 {
                            compatible = "arm,cortex-a72";
                            device_type = "cpu";
                            enable-method = "psci";
                            reg = <0x03>;
                    };
            };
    
    ...
    
            psci {
                    compatible = "arm,psci-0.2\0arm,psci";
                    cpu_off = <0x84000002>;
                    cpu_on = <0xc4000003>;
                    cpu_suspend = <0xc4000001>;
                    method = "hvc";
                    migrate = <0xc4000005>;
            };

    Best regards,

    Vincent.

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