x86/smp/boot: Add cmdline "cpu_init_udelay=N" to specify cpu_up() delay

No change to default behavior.

Replace the hard-coded mdelay(10) in cpu_up() with a variable
udelay, that is set to a defined default -- rather than a magic
number.

Add a boot-time override, "cpu_init_udelay=N"

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan H. Schönherr <jschoenh@amazon.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2fe8e6c798e8def271122f62df9bbf58dc283e2a.1431379433.git.len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index 51203f60587f..0629a8e513af 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -514,6 +514,27 @@ void __inquire_remote_apic(int apicid)
 }
 
 /*
+ * The Multiprocessor Specification 1.4 (1997) example code suggests
+ * that there should be a 10ms delay between the BSP asserting INIT
+ * and de-asserting INIT, when starting a remote processor.
+ * But that slows boot and resume on modern processors, which include
+ * many cores and don't require that delay.
+ *
+ * Cmdline "init_cpu_udelay=" is available to over-ride this delay.
+ */
+#define UDELAY_10MS_DEFAULT 10000
+
+static unsigned int init_udelay = UDELAY_10MS_DEFAULT;
+
+static int __init cpu_init_udelay(char *str)
+{
+	get_option(&str, &init_udelay);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("cpu_init_udelay", cpu_init_udelay);
+
+/*
  * Poke the other CPU in the eye via NMI to wake it up. Remember that the normal
  * INIT, INIT, STARTUP sequence will reset the chip hard for us, and this
  * won't ... remember to clear down the APIC, etc later.
@@ -584,7 +605,7 @@ wakeup_secondary_cpu_via_init(int phys_apicid, unsigned long start_eip)
 		pr_debug("Waiting for send to finish...\n");
 		send_status = safe_apic_wait_icr_idle();
 
-		mdelay(10);
+		mdelay(init_udelay);
 
 		pr_debug("Deasserting INIT\n");