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

Suzuki K Poulose Suzuki.Poulose at arm.com
Thu Apr 14 10:49:11 PDT 2016


On 14/04/16 18:39, Will Deacon wrote:
> 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?

We could. I don't have a strong opinion. If there are no objections, I could
adopt it.

Cheers
Suzuki




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