[PATCH 14/17] ARM: mvebu: synchronize secondary CPU clocks on resume
Gregory CLEMENT
gregory.clement at free-electrons.com
Mon Nov 10 06:12:21 PST 2014
Hi Thomas,
On 24/10/2014 13:59, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> The Armada XP has multiple cores clocked by independent clocks. The
> SMP startup code contains a function called set_secondary_cpus_clock()
> called in armada_xp_smp_prepare_cpus() to ensure the clocks of the
> secondary CPUs match the clock of the boot CPU.
>
> With the introduction of suspend/resume, this operation is no longer
> needed when booting the system, but also when existing the suspend to
> RAM state. Therefore this commit reworks a bit the logic: instead of
> configuring the clock of all secondary CPUs in
> armada_xp_smp_prepare_cpus(), we do it on a per-secondary CPU basis in
> armada_xp_boot_secondary(), as this function gets called when existing
> suspend to RAM for each secondary CPU.
>
> Since the function now only takes care of one CPU, we rename it from
> set_secondary_cpus_clock() to set_secondary_cpu_clock(), and it looses
> its __init marker, as it is now used beyond the system initialization.
>
> Note that we can't use smp_processor_id() directly, because when
> exiting from suspend to RAM, the code is apparently executed with
> preemption enabled, so smp_processor_id() is not happy (prints a
> warning). We therefore switch to using get_cpu()/put_cpu(), even
> though we pretty much have the guarantee that the code starting the
> secondary CPUs is going to run on the boot CPU and will not be
> migrated.
>
Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com>
Thanks,
Gregory
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/mach-mvebu/platsmp.c | 31 +++++++++++++++----------------
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
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