arm中smp的工作原理.doc

Embedded Linux Conference 2014 SMP bring up on ARM SoCs Gregory CLEMENT Free Electrons gregory.clement@ Free Electrons. Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. 1/31 Gregory CLEMENT I Embedded Linux engineer and trainer at Free Electrons since 2010 I Embedded Linux development: kernel and driver development, system integration, boot time and power consumption optimization, consulting, etc. I Embedded Linux training, Linux driver development training and Android system development training, with materials freely available under a Creative Commons license. I I Contributing to kernel support for the Armada 370, 375, 38x and Armada XP ARM SoCs from Marvell. I Co-maintainer of mvebu sub-architecture (SoCs from Marvell Engineering Business Unit) I Living near Lyon, France Free Electrons. Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. 2/31 Motivation and Overview I Motivation I All the new ARM CPUs are now SMP capable. I Most of the new ARM SoCs actually uses multiple CPUs. I Did SMP bring up for two kinds of ARM SoCs during past year. I Documentation I would have like to ?nd. I Overview I SMP operations and functions. I Implementation of these functions. I Issues encountered during SMP bring up. Free Electrons. Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. 3/31 SMP on ARM SoC? I A symmetric multiprocessor system (SMP) is a multiprocessor system with centralized shared memory called main memory (MM) operating under a single operating system with two or more homogeneous processors. (Wikipedia) I Most of the SMP code is not architecture dependent (in kernel directory). I Most of the hardware support is related to the ARM speci?cation. I SoC level: all that is beyond the CPU, mainly initialization and power down the CPUs. Free Electrons. Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. 4/31 Assumptions I SoC support is worki