[PATCH 04/14] ARM: bugs: add support for per-processor bug checking

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Wed May 16 09:23:45 PDT 2018


On 05/16/2018 04:00 AM, Russell King wrote:
> Add support for per-processor bug checking - each processor function
> descriptor gains a function pointer for this check, which must not be
> an __init function.  If non-NULL, this will be called whenever a CPU
> enters the kernel via which ever path (boot CPU, secondary CPU startup,
> CPU resuming, etc.)
> 
> This allows processor specific bug checks to validate that workaround
> bits are properly enabled by firmware via all entry paths to the kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
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Florian



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