Crash after 'reboot' due to 9be4fd2c7723a

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Mon May 23 14:38:31 PDT 2016


On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:

> Read the code again.  There's three states:
>
> 1. CONFIG_SMP=n - it always returns false.
> 2. CONFIG_SMP=y, CONFIG_SMP_ON_UP=n - it always returns true.  Such a
>    kernel can _only_ be run on SMP capable systems.
> 3. CONFIG_SMP=y, CONFIG_SMP_ON_UP=y - it returns depending on whether
>    we detect that the CPU is SMP capable.

Yes, I meant that on imx6ul we have option 2 above with imx_v6_v7_defconfig.

Also tested option 3 and is_smp() returns true as well.

I will try to see why GIC on this SoC cannot work in SMP.



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