[PATCH] ARM: smp: improve CPU bringup failure diagnostics
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sat Dec 18 07:46:16 EST 2010
We used to print a bland error message which gave no clue as to the
failure when we failed to bring up a secondary CPU. Resolve this by
separating the two failure cases.
If boot_secondary() fails, we print a message indicating the returned
error code from boot_secondary():
"CPU%u: failed to boot: %d\n", cpu, ret.
However, if boot_secondary() succeeded, but the CPU did not appear to
mark itself online within the timeout, indicate that it failed to come
online:
"CPU%u: failed to come online\n", cpu
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
---
arch/arm/kernel/smp.c | 14 +++++---------
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
index bba1e96..ef2438f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
@@ -164,8 +164,12 @@ int __cpuinit __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu)
barrier();
}
- if (!cpu_online(cpu))
+ if (!cpu_online(cpu)) {
+ pr_crit("CPU%u: failed to come online\n", cpu);
ret = -EIO;
+ }
+ } else {
+ pr_err("CPU%u: failed to boot: %d\n", cpu, ret);
}
secondary_data.stack = NULL;
@@ -181,14 +185,6 @@ int __cpuinit __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu)
pgd_free(&init_mm, pgd);
- if (ret) {
- printk(KERN_CRIT "CPU%u: processor failed to boot\n", cpu);
-
- /*
- * FIXME: We need to clean up the new idle thread. --rmk
- */
- }
-
return ret;
}
--
1.6.2.5
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