These functions, for good design reason, take a locking key to
atomically release along with the context swtich. But there's still a
common pattern in code to do a switch unconditionally by passing
irq_lock() directly. On SMP that's a little hurtful as it spams the
global lock. Provide an _unlocked() variant for
_Swap/_reschedule/_pend_curr for simplicity and efficiency.
Signed-off-by: Andy Ross <andrew.j.ross@intel.com>
Checking the return of some scattered functions across kernel.
MISRA-C requires that all non-void functions have their return value
checked, though, in some cases there is nothing to do. Just
acknowledging it.
Signed-off-by: Flavio Ceolin <flavio.ceolin@intel.com>
irq_lock returns an unsigned int, though, several places was using
signed int. This commit fix this behaviour.
In order to avoid this error happens again, a coccinelle script was
added and can be used to check violations.
Signed-off-by: Flavio Ceolin <flavio.ceolin@intel.com>
This was wrong in two ways, one subtle and one awful.
The subtle problem was that the IRQ lock isn't actually globally
recursive, it gets reset when you context switch (i.e. a _Swap()
implicitly releases and reacquires it). So the recursive count I was
keeping needs to be per-thread or else we risk deadlock any time we
swap away from a thread holding the lock.
And because part of my brain apparently knew this, there was an
"optimization" in the code that tested the current count vs. zero
outside the lock, on the argument that if it was non-zero we must
already hold the lock. Which would be true of a per-thread counter,
but NOT a global one: the other CPU may be holding that lock, and this
test will tell you *you* do. The upshot is that a recursive
irq_lock() would almost always SUCCEED INCORRECTLY when there was lock
contention. That this didn't break more things is amazing to me.
The rework is actually simpler than the original, thankfully. Though
there are some further subtleties:
* The lock state implied by irq_lock() allows the lock to be
implicitly released on context switch (i.e. you can _Swap() with the
lock held at a recursion level higher than 1, which needs to allow
other processes to run). So return paths into threads from _Swap()
and interrupt/exception exit need to check and restore the global
lock state, spinning as needed.
* The idle loop design specifies a k_cpu_idle() function that is on
common architectures expected to enable interrupts (for obvious
reasons), but there is no place to put non-arch code to wire it into
the global lock accounting. So on SMP, even CPU0 needs to use the
"dumb" spinning idle loop.
Finally this patch contains a simple bugfix too, found by inspection:
the interrupt return code used when CONFIG_SWITCH is enabled wasn't
correctly setting the active flag on the threads, opening up the
potential for a race that might result in a thread being scheduled on
two CPUs simultaneously.
Signed-off-by: Andy Ross <andrew.j.ross@intel.com>
Names that begin with an underscore are reserved by the C standard.
This patch does not change names of functions defined and implemented
in header files.
Signed-off-by: Leandro Pereira <leandro.pereira@intel.com>
In SMP, the system timer is used for timeslicing on auxiliary CPUs,
but the base system timekeeping via _nano_sys_clock_tick_announce() is
still done on CPU0 only (because the framework isn't prepared for
asynchronous notification yet). Skip processing on CPU1+.
Also, due to a hardware interaction* that is difficult to work around,
timer initialization on the auxiliary CPUs is done at the very end of
the CPU bringup, just before the swap into the scheduler. A
smp_timer_init() API has been added for this purpose.
* On ESP-32, enabling the timer seems to result in a near-synchronous
interrupt being delivered despite my best attempts to keep it
masked, then blowing things up because the CPU record isn't set up
to handle it yet.
Signed-off-by: Andy Ross <andrew.j.ross@intel.com>
Now that all the pieces are in place, enable SMP for real:
Initialize the CPU records, launch the CPUs at the end of kernel
initialization, have them wait for a flag to release them into the
scheduler, then enter into the runnable threads via _Swap().
Signed-off-by: Andy Ross <andrew.j.ross@intel.com>
In SMP mode, the idea of a single "IRQ lock" goes away. Long term,
all usage needs to migrate to spinlocks (which become simple IRQ locks
in the uniprocessor case). For the near term, we can ease the
migration (at the expense of performance) by providing a compatibility
implementation around a single global lock.
Note that one complication is that the older lock was recursive, while
spinlocks will deadlock if you try to lock them twice. So we
implement a simple "count" semantic to handle multiple locks.
Signed-off-by: Andy Ross <andrew.j.ross@intel.com>
Andy Ross