[RFC v2 PATCH 08/23] ARM: NOMMU: implement secondary_startup_arm

Vladimir Murzin vladimir.murzin at arm.com
Wed Nov 30 01:57:22 PST 2016


On 29/11/16 17:14, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 12:39:50PM +0000, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
>> Mediatek's and Qualcomm's platform code has reference to
>> secondary_startup_arm and that breaks NOMMU build.
> 
> This needs to explain why this is safe in the presence of EFM32.
> 

It did not explode by pure luck M-class doesn't support SMP. The code needs to
include case for CONFIG_CPU_THUMBONLY. I'll include update in the next version.

Thanks
Vladimir

>> Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
>> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin at arm.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/kernel/head-nommu.S |    7 +++++++
>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/head-nommu.S b/arch/arm/kernel/head-nommu.S
>> index 7317554..2ab026f 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/head-nommu.S
>> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/head-nommu.S
>> @@ -89,6 +89,12 @@ ENDPROC(stext)
>>  
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>>  	.text
>> +	.arm
>> +ENTRY(secondary_startup_arm)
>> +	THUMB(	badr	r9, 1f		)	@ Kernel is entered in ARM.
>> +	THUMB(	bx	r9		)	@ If this is a Thumb-2 kernel,
>> +	THUMB(	.thumb			)	@ switch to Thumb now.
>> +	THUMB(1:			)
>>  ENTRY(secondary_startup)
>>  	/*
>>  	 * Common entry point for secondary CPUs.
>> @@ -126,6 +132,7 @@ ENTRY(secondary_startup)
>>  	mov	fp, #0
>>  	b	secondary_start_kernel
>>  ENDPROC(secondary_startup)
>> +ENDPROC(secondary_startup_arm)
>>  
>>  	.type	__secondary_data, %object
>>  __secondary_data:
>> -- 
>> 1.7.9.5
>>
> 




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