linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/21] ARM: drop SMP support for ARM11MPCore

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Date:   Thu, 30 Mar 2023 10:12:00 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...nel.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/21] ARM: drop SMP support for ARM11MPCore

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:16 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org> wrote:

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>
> The cache management operations for noncoherent DMA on ARMv6 work
> in two different ways:
>
>  * When CONFIG_DMA_CACHE_RWFO is set, speculative prefetches on in-flight
>    DMA buffers lead to data corruption when the prefetched data is written
>    back on top of data from the device.
>
>  * When CONFIG_DMA_CACHE_RWFO is disabled, a cache flush on one CPU
>    is not seen by the other core(s), leading to inconsistent contents
>    accross the system.
>
> As a consequence, neither configuration is actually safe to use in a
> general-purpose kernel that is used on both MPCore systems and ARM1176
> with prefetching enabled.
>
> We could add further workarounds to make the behavior more dynamic based
> on the system, but realistically, there are close to zero remaining
> users on any ARM11MPCore anyway, and nobody seems too interested in it,
> compared to the more popular ARM1176 used in BMC2835 and AST2500.
>
> The Oxnas platform has some minimal support in OpenWRT, but most of the
> drivers and dts files never made it into the mainline kernel, while the
> Arm Versatile/Realview platform mainly serves as a reference system but
> is not necessary to be kept working once all other ARM11MPCore are gone.
>
> Take the easy way out here and drop support for multiprocessing on
> ARMv6, along with the CONFIG_DMA_CACHE_RWFO option and the cache
> management implementation for it. This also helps with other ARMv6
> issues, but for the moment leaves the ability to build a kernel that
> can run on both ARMv7 SMP and single-processor ARMv6, which we probably
> want to stop supporting as well, but not as part of this series.
>
> Cc: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>
> Cc: Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> Cc: linux-oxnas@...ups.io
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Yeah, we discussed this earlier, let's just drop it. Not worth the effort.
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij