[PATCH RESEND] ARM: mcpm: Make all mcpm functions notrace
Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
tixy at linaro.org
Fri Feb 14 06:52:01 EST 2014
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 15:42 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
>
> > From: Dave Martin <dave.martin at linaro.org>
> >
> > The functions in mcpm_entry.c are mostly intended for use during
> > scary cache and coherency disabling sequences, or do other things
> > which confuse trace ... like powering a CPU down and not
> > returning. Similarly for the backend code.
> >
> > For simplicity, this patch just makes whole files notrace.
> > There should be more than enough traceable points on the paths to
> > these functions, but we can be more fine-grained later if there is
> > a need for it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin at linaro.org>
> >
> > Also added spc.o to the list of files as it contains functions used by
> > MCPM code which have comments comments like: "might be used in code
> > paths where normal cacheable locks are not working"
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy at linaro.org>
>
> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
>
> Please send to RMK's patch system.
Thanks, added as patch 7962/2 [1]. (My first attempt accidentally
omitted the "From: Dave Martin" line - I hope the patch system
understands such lines).
[1] http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=7962/2
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Tixy
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