[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: sun8i: Add SMP support for the Allwinner A23

[Chen-Yu Tsai]

Hi Maxime,

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:18 AM, maxime.ripard
<maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:05:06PM +0800, kevin.z.m.zh at gmail.com wrote:
>> >> One question I couldn't find any answer to is that does the SMP bit is
>> >> set in secondary_startup?
>> >>
>> >> I couldn't find where it was set, but it still looks like the right
>> >> thing to do, so I would expect the code to do that.
>> >
>> > I don't see it either. The sun8i code is just the sun6i code with the
>> > power clamps removed. And sun6i secondary_startup was removed some time
>> > ago in commit 1146b600044d ("ARM: sunxi: fix build for THUMB2_KERNEL").
>> >
>> > ChenYu
>>
>> The SMP bit should be set in the function of "__v7_ca7mp_setup", which is located
>> in the file:
>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S?id=refs/tags/v4.0-rc4
>> I'm not sure if this is your discussion.
>
> It is, but I wasn't seeing it called anywhere in the secondary_startup
> code path.
>
> I was expecting a direct call, but it looks like it's a dynamic call,
> with a function-pointer like call, that is indeed run both in the
> kernel entry point and the secondary_startup.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm/kernel/head.S?id=refs/tags/v4.0-rc4#n389

Are we waiting for Marc's input on this?

ChenYu