[PATCH] ARM: smp: return from ipi_cpu_stop()

Ulrich Hecht ulrich.hecht at gmail.com
Sat Jan 5 09:49:33 EST 2013


On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> Plus, there's no guarantee what so ever that anything will happen in the
> idle loop; this is not the _normal_ CPU shutdown path, this is the "oh
> fsck, we need to stop all other CPUs because we panic'd" handler.

So who's job is it then to call cpu_die()? Because that's what doesn't
happen and leaves the second core spinning, wrecking the kexec'd
kernel.

CU
Uli



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