[PATCH v6 01/11] ARM: sunxi: smp: Move assembly code into a file

[Maxime Ripard]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:12:41AM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 5:50 AM, Mylène Josserand
> <mylene.josserand at bootlin.com> wrote:
> > Move the assembly code for cluster cache enabling and resuming
> > into an assembly file instead of having it directly in C code.
> >
> > Remove the CFLAGS because we are using the ARM directive "arch"
> > instead.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mylène Josserand <mylene.josserand at bootlin.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Makefile  |  4 +--
> >  arch/arm/mach-sunxi/headsmp.S | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/arm/mach-sunxi/mc_smp.c  | 82 +++----------------------------------------
> >  3 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-sunxi/headsmp.S
> 
> I'm still not convinced about this whole "move ASM to separate
> file" thing, especially now that you aren't actually adding any
> sunxi-specific ASM code beyond a simple function call.
> 
> Could you drop this for now?

I'd really like to have this merged actually. There's a significant
readibility improvement, so even if there's no particular functional
improvement, I'd still call it a win.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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