[PATCH 7/9] ARM: OMAP4+: Move the CPU wakeup prepare code under smp_prepare_cpus()

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Mar 28 08:04:50 EDT 2013


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 03:28:12PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> On Thursday 28 March 2013 03:16 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:34:50AM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> >> On Thursday 28 March 2013 12:15 AM, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> >>> Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> Move the secondary CPU wakeup prepare code under smp_prepare_cpus(). 
> >>>
> >>> Why?
> >>>
> >> Because that code belongs to smp_prepare_cpus(). As I said
> >> in earlier patches, it was remainder of the pen release code
> >> which was borrowed from ARM code initially.
> > 
> > What about hotplug after the system is suspended?  Is this setup
> > preserved by the secure ROM?
> >
> > If not, it really needs to be part of the CPU bringup, not the
> > boot-time-only preparation code.
> >
> Its already the case. Hotplug CPU restarts just like CPU bring-up.
> Initial code, hotplug cpu and last cpu(suspend) were taking identical
> path for the suspend wakeup. Later you suggested after the discussion
> that hotplug CPU state need not be saved and can be restarted just like
> the CPU bring-up path.
> 
> So the current code follows above.

smp_prepare_cpus() doesn't get run apart from at initial boot.

So, I repeat my question: what restores OMAP_AUX_CORE_BOOT_1 after
context loss?



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