[PATCH v2 00/23] arm64: Implement parallel CPU onlining with PSCI v0.2+

From: Will Deacon

Date: Fri Oct 09 2026 - 06:09:25 EST


Hi everyone,

This is version two of the patches I previously posted here:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260907164024.17164-1-will@xxxxxxxxxx/

There have been quite a few changes since last time, thanks to all the
feedback from humans and robots alike. These include:

* Added tags (but I didn't carry over Pankaj's T-b, since the series
has changed a fair bit).

* Fix secondary entry assembly code to handle timeouts correctly.

* Fix stashing of MPIDR so that we don't clobber STACK_END_MAGIC.

* Fix NULL dereference if PSCI fails to initialise.

* Enable RCU as soon as a secondary CPU is alive.

* Drop pointless (unreachable) optimisation to
arch_cpuhp_sync_state_poll().

* Include cpufeature patches from Fuad so that 'cpu_data' is populated
with register values taking into account any cmdline overrides. This
is necessary for correct handling of 'boot_cpu_data' later on, where
the previous version of this series stashed a stale copy of mpamidr.

As before, the first four patches are small changes to the generic code
to make it a little more "Arm-shaped" but the rest of the series is
largely confined to the arm64 architecture and PSCI driver code.

The series is based on -rc2, as it otherwise conflicts with Fuad's GMID
fix that was recently merged upstream.

Cheers,

Will

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Ștefania Ion <stefion@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Pankaj Patil <pankaj.patil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Tarun Sahu <tarunsahu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>

--->8

Fuad Tabba (4):
arm64: cpufeature: Check arm64_ftr_regs[] before the first store
arm64: cpufeature: Add read_cpuid_with_overrides()
arm64: cpufeature: Read MPAMIDR_EL1 in __cpuinfo_store_cpu()
arm64: cpufeature: Store every ID register with its overrides applied

Will Deacon (19):
cpu/hotplug: Clean up cmpxchg() logic in cpuhp_can_boot_ap()
cpu/hotplug: Avoid trying to bring up CPUs that are already online
cpu/hotplug: Avoid busy-polling on archs where cpu_relax() is a no-op
cpu/hotplug: Propagate bring-up status to
arch_cpuhp_cleanup_kick_cpu()
arm64: smp: Tidy up smp_prepare_cpus()
arm64: smp: Tidy up cpuinfo init and cpufeature updates
arm64: smp: Defer update of secondary CPU capabilities
arm64: smp: Don't bother printing the I-cache policy for each CPU
arm64: smp: Defer RCU registration during secondary CPU bringup
arm64: smp: Use generic HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_FULL machinery for CPU
onlining
arm64: smp: Use generic HOTPLUG_SPLIT_STARTUP machinery for CPU
onlining
arm64: cpu_ops: Make 'cpu_operations' pointer global instead of
per-cpu
arm64: cpu_ops: Introduce get_secondary_cpu_ops()
firmware/psci: Cache PSCI v0.2+ version number to avoid redundant SMCs
firmware/psci: Extend ->cpu_on() callback to take an additional
argument
arm64: cpu_ops: Expose optional argument to target cpu in ->cpu_boot()
arm64: smp: Pass secondary CPU boot parameters via firmware if
possible
arm64: smp: Use generic HOTPLUG_PARALLEL machinery for CPU onlining
arm64: smp: Harden parallel CPU bringup against broken PSCI firmware

arch/arm/kernel/psci_smp.c | 4 +-
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpu.h | 7 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpu_ops.h | 7 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 11 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h | 40 ++-
arch/arm64/include/asm/topology.h | 2 +
arch/arm64/kernel/acpi_parking_protocol.c | 3 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_ops.c | 34 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 397 +++++++++++-----------
arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c | 122 +++----
arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 60 +++-
arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c | 14 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 183 +++++-----
arch/arm64/kernel/smp_spin_table.c | 2 +-
arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 4 +-
drivers/firmware/psci/psci.c | 27 +-
include/linux/cpuhotplug.h | 2 +-
include/linux/psci.h | 3 +-
include/linux/rcutree.h | 2 +-
kernel/cpu.c | 18 +-
23 files changed, 508 insertions(+), 439 deletions(-)

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