[PATCH v6 3/5] ARM: soft_restart: disable the outer L2 when the last CPU is going down

[Stephen Boyd]

On 11/16/11 10:30, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 06:20:08PM +0000, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>> When does this code execute on another cpu? My understanding is that
>> soft_restart() is only called on one CPU so I would think checking the
>> number of online cpus isn't necessary.
> Currently, yes, this only executes on one CPU. The code is there in case
> we want to implement a SMP kexec solution that doesn't require CPU hotplug
> at some point.
>
> I suppose you could end up in a situation where the reset path leads to a
> soft reboot and you haven't dealt with the secondaries at this point, but
> then you have bigger problems to worry about (namely that whatever you jump
> to after turning the MMU off needs to deal with the secondaries somehow).

Fair enough. I was just curious.

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