[PATCH 1/8] ARM: SCU: Add common routines for secondary CPUbootup

[Santosh Shilimkar]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-omap-owner at vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-omap-
> owner at vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Russell King - ARM Linux
> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 2:18 PM
> To: Tony Lindgren; Kukjin Kim; Srinidhi Kasagar; Jamie Iles; Anton
> Vorontsov; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; linux-samsung-
> soc at vger.kernel.org; Colin Cross; linux-tegra at vger.kernel.org; Uwe
Kleine-
> König; linux-omap at vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] ARM: SCU: Add common routines for secondary
> CPUbootup
>
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 06:01:50PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux
wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 05:38:24PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux
> wrote:
> > > What if a platform, for what ever reason, wants to have 3 CPUs,
> > > numbered 0, 2, 3 ?  That's the reason why the code which sets the
> > > possible and present maps isn't in the ARM core code - Eg, we don't
> > > know if a platform wants to keep CPU 1 in AMP mode to run some
> > > special software on it.
> > >
> > > I don't think it's worth it because I think trying to considate this
> > > is going to cripple the code structure in the future.
> >
> > I don't think this is particularly worth it either:
>
> As Catalin has pointed out:
>
>
http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/lurker/message/20101202.162840.5465758c.en.h
> tml
>
> The SCU is part of the core, and if you consult the TRMs for the MPCore
> devices, it is actually different in ARM11 MPCore vs Cortex-A9 MPCore.
> Cortex-A15 doesn't have a MMIO addressable SCU at all.
>
> So, this is about as far as I want to go with stripping out the common
> code from the various platforms (this includes my previous SMP series):
>
>
http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/lurker/message/20101203.200746.31424430.en.h
> tml
>
> This results in a net reduction of 242 LOC, as shown in the following
> diffstat:
>
>  arch/arm/include/asm/hardirq.h            |   18 ++
>  arch/arm/include/asm/mach/irq.h           |    2 +-
>  arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h                |   17 +-
>  arch/arm/include/asm/smp_mpidr.h          |   17 --
>  arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S              |    2 +-
>  arch/arm/kernel/fiq.c                     |    5 +-
>  arch/arm/kernel/head.S                    |   39 +++--
>  arch/arm/kernel/irq.c                     |   23 ++-
>  arch/arm/kernel/smp.c                     |  243
++++++++++++++++--------
> -----
>  arch/arm/mach-msm/include/mach/smp.h      |    4 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-hotplug.c        |   14 +--
>  arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-smp.c            |   66 ++------
>  arch/arm/mach-realview/hotplug.c          |   18 +--
>  arch/arm/mach-realview/include/mach/smp.h |    5 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-realview/platsmp.c          |   95 +++---------
>  arch/arm/mach-s5pv310/hotplug.c           |   18 +--
>  arch/arm/mach-s5pv310/include/mach/smp.h  |    5 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-s5pv310/platsmp.c           |   46 +-----
>  arch/arm/mach-tegra/hotplug.c             |   18 +--
>  arch/arm/mach-tegra/include/mach/smp.h    |   12 +--
>  arch/arm/mach-tegra/platsmp.c             |   33 +---
>  arch/arm/mach-ux500/hotplug.c             |   18 +--
>  arch/arm/mach-ux500/include/mach/smp.h    |    5 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-ux500/platsmp.c             |   57 ++-----
>  arch/arm/mach-vexpress/include/mach/smp.h |    5 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-vexpress/platsmp.c          |   54 ++-----
>  arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/smp.h     |    5 +-
>  27 files changed, 301 insertions(+), 543 deletions(-)
>
> Can someone also explain why OMAP uses different file naming from
everyone
> else?  It's annoying as (eg) arch/arm/*/platsmp.c for editing the
platform
> SMP support files gets everyone except OMAP.

Nothing specific Russell?.
Its just to keep in sync with the way other files are named
under omap directories. We could rename this if it helps.

Regards,
Ssantosh