arm64: psci: Ignore DENIED CPUs

When a CPU is marked as disabled, but online capable in the MADT, PSCI
applies some firmware policy to control when it can be brought online.
PSCI returns DENIED to a CPU_ON request if this is not currently
permitted. The OS can learn the current policy from the _STA enabled bit.

Handle the PSCI DENIED return code gracefully instead of printing an
error.

Note the alternatives to the PSCI cpu_boot() callback do not
return -EPERM so the change in smp.c has no affect.

See https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0022/f/?lang=en page 58.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <[email protected]>
[ morse: Rewrote commit message ]
Signed-off-by: James Morse <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Miguel Luis <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Vishnu Pajjuri <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Jianyong Wu <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
index 6b0572daa9da..a755b9f902fa 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
@@ -132,7 +132,8 @@ int __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
 	/* Now bring the CPU into our world */
 	ret = boot_secondary(cpu, idle);
 	if (ret) {
-		pr_err("CPU%u: failed to boot: %d\n", cpu, ret);
+		if (ret != -EPERM)
+			pr_err("CPU%u: failed to boot: %d\n", cpu, ret);
 		return ret;
 	}