[PATCH] ARM: do not mark CPU 0 as hotpluggable

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Fri Jul 22 08:53:05 EDT 2011


On 7/22/2011 6:15 PM, Woodruff, Richard wrote:
>
>> From: linux-arm-kernel-bounces at lists.infradead.org [mailto:linux-arm-
>> kernel-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Shilimkar, Santosh
>
>>> With fixed IRQ migration and forcing CPU0 into an infinite WFI loop,
>>> I can offline CPU0 and still have a running system.
>>>
>> The secure software runs only on CPU0 and that's the biggest limitation.
>> Other issues like hand-shake as you pointed out, power sequencing etc
>> can be worked around.
>
> As you know well some of the secure APIs work on CPU1 and others do not.
>
> I notice in other thread Russell made assumption about CPU1 being able to use all because it could run some. This is not the case.
>
I clarified that on the other thread.

Regards
Santosh



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