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Unverified Commit 55e0bf49 authored by Evan Green's avatar Evan Green Committed by Palmer Dabbelt
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RISC-V: Probe misaligned access speed in parallel



Probing for misaligned access speed takes about 0.06 seconds. On a
system with 64 cores, doing this in smp_callin() means it's done
serially, extending boot time by 3.8 seconds. That's a lot of boot time.

Instead of measuring each CPU serially, let's do the measurements on
all CPUs in parallel. If we disable preemption on all CPUs, the
jiffies stop ticking, so we can do this in stages of 1) everybody
except core 0, then 2) core 0. The allocations are all done outside of
on_each_cpu() to avoid calling alloc_pages() with interrupts disabled.

For hotplugged CPUs that come in after the boot time measurement,
register CPU hotplug callbacks, and do the measurement there. Interrupts
are enabled in those callbacks, so they're fine to do alloc_pages() in.

Reported-by: default avatarJisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/mhng-9359993d-6872-4134-83ce-c97debe1cf9a@palmer-ri-x1c9/T/#mae9b8f40016f9df428829d33360144dc5026bcbf


Fixes: 584ea656 ("RISC-V: Probe for unaligned access speed")
Signed-off-by: default avatarEvan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231106225855.3121724-1-evan@rivosinc.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
parent 6eb7a644
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