Hi Stefano,
On 26/06/2019 02:01, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, Julien Grall wrote:
On secondary CPUs, zero_bss() will be a NOP because BSS only need to be
zeroed once at boot. So the call in the secondary CPUs path can be
removed. It also means that x26 does not need to set and is now only
used by the boot CPU.
Lastly, document the behavior and the main registers usage within the
function.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@arm.com>
---
xen/arch/arm/arm64/head.S | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/arm64/head.S b/xen/arch/arm/arm64/head.S
index 87fcd3be6c..6aa3148192 100644
--- a/xen/arch/arm/arm64/head.S
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/arm64/head.S
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
* x23 - UART address
* x24 -
* x25 - identity map in place
- * x26 - skip_zero_bss
+ * x26 - skip_zero_bss (boot cpu only)
you could remove this, see below...
* x27 -
* x28 -
* x29 -
@@ -313,8 +313,6 @@ GLOBAL(init_secondary)
sub x20, x19, x0 /* x20 := phys-offset */
mov x22, #1 /* x22 := is_secondary_cpu */
- /* Boot CPU already zero BSS so skip it on secondary CPUs. */
- mov x26, #1 /* X26 := skip_zero_bss */
mrs x0, mpidr_el1
ldr x13, =(~MPIDR_HWID_MASK)
@@ -337,7 +335,6 @@ GLOBAL(init_secondary)
PRINT(" booting -\r\n")
#endif
bl check_cpu_mode
- bl zero_bss
bl cpu_init
bl create_page_tables
bl enable_mmu
@@ -375,6 +372,14 @@ check_cpu_mode:
b fail
ENDPROC(check_cpu_mode)
+/*
+ * Zero BSS
+ *
+ * Inputs:
+ * x26: Do we need to zero BSS?
+ *
+ * Clobbers x0 - x3
+ */
zero_bss:
/* Zero BSS only when requested */
cbnz x26, skip_bss
In the commit message you wrote: "It also means that x26 does not need
to set and is now only used by the boot CPU." I think this statement is
correct, so you could also remove this "cbnz x26, skip_bss" and also
the skip_bss label below.
I meant x26 does not need to be set on the secondary CPUs. However, we still
need to keep it for boot CPU as we don't want to zero BSS when booting via EFI.
This is because the EFI stub will store information in BSS. Note that BSS was
zeroed by EFI loader before hand.
I will reword the commit message.
Cheers,
--
Julien Grall
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