SMP for L4Linux on i.MX6

[Uwe Geuder]

On 13 October 2014 21:19, Adam Lackorzynski <adam at os.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon Oct 13, 2014 at 19:12:25 +0300, Uwe Geuder wrote:
>> We have an i.MX6 quadcore SoC and obviously we would like to use more than
>> 1 core in L4Linux. So far I have not succeeded to do that.
>>
...
>
> For L4Linux, you need to specify how many CPUs it should use via cmdline
> option: l4x_cpus=X
>

Thanks for your answer, done now.



>> -- CPUs 1 + 2
>> -- scheduler = L4.Env.user_factory:create(L4.Proto.Scheduler, 0x18, 0x8, 6),
>> -- maybe no mask means all CPUs?
>> scheduler = L4.Env.user_factory:create(L4.Proto.Scheduler, 0x18, 0x8),
>
> Do not use any of those in this case.

Removed.



>> Does the virtual CPU seen by L4Linux
>> need to control/use the SCU or is that something made completely transparent
>> by the virtual cpu offered by L4?
>
> User programs, such as L4Linux, have nothing to do with the SCU, i.e. it
> is completely transparent.

OK, good.

So I measured again and could not find any effects whether l4x_cpus=3 is
present or not.

Next I looked at the code what l4x_cpus= does. And indeed it does nothing.
To be more exact all it does is inside #ifdef CONFIG_SMP. You did
not explicitly say that I should disable that option, but I still concluded I
should do so to get rid of the build failures. 


But as I wrote before, I had not been able to build with that option enabled
>
>> Next I looked at our L4Linux configuration and indeed CONFIG_SMP was not
>> set. However after enabling it the kernel does no longer build:
>>
>> arch/arm/mach-imx/built-in.o: In function `imx_smp_prepare':
>> /home/geuder/projects/c4c/l4-bundle/l4linux/arch/arm/mach-imx/platsmp.c:79: undefined reference to `scu_enable'
>> /home/geuder/projects/c4c/l4-bundle/l4linux/arch/arm/mach-imx/platsmp.c:79: undefined reference to `scu_enable'
>> arch/arm/mach-imx/built-in.o: In function `imx_smp_init_cpus':
>> /home/geuder/projects/c4c/l4-bundle/l4linux/arch/arm/mach-imx/platsmp.c:71: undefined reference to `scu_get_core_count'
>> arch/arm/mach-imx/built-in.o: In function `v7_secondary_startup':
>> /home/geuder/projects/c4c/l4-bundle/l4linux/arch/arm/mach-imx/headsmp.S:33: undefined reference to `v7_invalidate_l1'
>> /home/geuder/projects/c4c/l4-bundle/l4linux/arch/arm/mach-imx/headsmp.S:35: undefined reference to `secondary_startup' 


So if CONFIG_SMP is needed to be selected, how can I solve the build problems?

Regards,

Uwe Geuder
Nomovok Ltd.
Tampere, Finland
uwe.gxuder at nomovok.com (bot test: humans correct 1 obvious spelling error)