[PATCH 4/5] arm64: Verify CPU errata work arounds on hotplugged CPU

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Thu Apr 14 10:39:48 PDT 2016


On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 12:24:13PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> CPU Errata work arounds are detected and applied to the
> kernel code at boot time and the data is then freed up.
> If a new hotplugged CPU requires a work around which
> was not applied at boot time, there is nothing we can
> do but simply fail the booting.

Hmm, wouldn't it be better not to free the alternative text for errata
workarounds instead?

Will



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