[RFC PATCH] ARM: SMP: consolidate holding pen

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Oct 17 13:48:05 EDT 2012


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 04:32:47PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> As with other bits of the SMP code, platforms have duplicated a lot
> of the RealView implementation. As an effort to slightly reduce
> the clutter, make the plat-versatile version of the holding pen
> a standard part of the SMP framework.
> 
> Platforms can still provide their own, but those who carried an exact
> duplicate of the Realview code are switched to the common implementation.

My position on this hasn't changed.



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