[PATCH v4 2/2] arm: prefer PSCI for SMP bringup

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Fri Mar 29 13:31:01 EDT 2013


On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Stefano Stabellini wrote:

> If PSCI initializes correctly and PSCI SMP operations are available, use them.
> This is required for SMP support in Dom0 on Xen.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com>
> CC: will.deacon at arm.com
> CC: arnd at arndb.de
> CC: marc.zyngier at arm.com
> CC: linux at arm.linux.org.uk
> CC: nico at linaro.org

I'd suggest you also include in your series the patch I posted earlier 
providing a runtime mdesc->smp_init method as well.  This way the 
priority order would be:

- If mdesc->smp_init is non null then use that.

- Otherwise, if PSCI is available then use that.

- Otherwise use mdesc->smp.

This way, if the PSCI default has to be overriden (like in the MCPM case 
because it needs to wrap PSCI itself, or to cover Rob's concern) then 
this can be achieved at run time on a per mdesc basis.


Nicolas



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