[PATCH 6/8] arm64/kexec: kexec needs cpu_die

Geoff Levand geoff at infradead.org
Tue May 13 15:27:23 PDT 2014


On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 09:24 +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Hi Geoff,
> 
> On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 01:48:17AM +0100, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > Kexec uses the cpu_die method of struct cpu_operations, so add
> > defined(CONFIG_KEXEC) to the preprocessor conditional that enables cpu_die.
> 
> Why not make kexec depend on !CONFIG_SMP || CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU instead?
> 
> From the POV of the PSCI code in the kernel, it's hotplugging a CPU. Why
> it's performing the hotplug operation shouldn't matter.

Sure.

> > @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ const struct cpu_operations cpu_psci_ops = {
> >  	.cpu_init	= cpu_psci_cpu_init,
> >  	.cpu_prepare	= cpu_psci_cpu_prepare,
> >  	.cpu_boot	= cpu_psci_cpu_boot,
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
> > +#if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) || defined(CONFIG_KEXEC)
> >  	.cpu_disable	= cpu_psci_cpu_disable,
> >  	.cpu_die	= cpu_psci_cpu_die,
> >  #endif
> 
> Doesn't his cause the build to fail when KEXEC && !HOTPLUG_CPU? I didn't
> see cpu_ops.h updated similarly.

Sorry, that part got lost when rebasing patches.  I added back in on my
for-arm-kexec-2 and master branches.

-Geoff






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