[PATCH v12 05/16] arm64: Add back cpu_reset routines

[Will Deacon]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 04:49:22PM -0800, Geoff Levand wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 09:32 +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:57:30PM -0800, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 10:40 +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > > 
> > > > All that can be solved in C, and mostly at compile time. Using an
> > > > assembler trampoline is complicating things for no good reason:
> > > 
> > > I added this into my kexec-v12.1 branch.  After some more testing I'll
> > > post a v13 to the list.
> > 
> > You may well need some notrace annotations if you want to run C code
> > here. Can you give it a spin with things like ftrace and kprobes?
> 
> I tested ftrace with and without the notrace annotation on
> cpu_soft_restart() and could do kexec re-boots either way.
> 
> When cpu_soft_restart() is called we've only done setup_mm_for_reboot(),
> so I would think C code should still be OK.

Yeah, you're right. I mistakenly thought that cpu_soft_restart was running
at the idmap address as opposed to the kernel virtual address.

Will