[PATCH 2/2] ARM: STi: remove sti_secondary_start from INIT section.

Srinivas KANDAGATLA srinivas.kandagatla at st.com
Thu Aug 1 08:13:41 EDT 2013


From: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla at st.com>

This patch removes sti_secondary_start from _INIT section, there are 2
reason for this removal.
 1. discarding such a small code does not save much, given the RAM
sizes.
 2. Having this code discarded, creates corruption issue when we boot
smp-kernel with nrcpus=1 or with single cpu node in DT.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla at st.com>
---
 arch/arm/mach-sti/headsmp.S |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-sti/headsmp.S b/arch/arm/mach-sti/headsmp.S
index 78ebc75..4c09bae 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-sti/headsmp.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-sti/headsmp.S
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@
 #include <linux/linkage.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 
-	__INIT
-
 /*
  * ST specific entry point for secondary CPUs.  This provides
  * a "holding pen" into which all secondary cores are held until we're
-- 
1.7.6.5




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