[PATCH v2 14/17] arm64: Kill __smp_cross_call and co

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Thu Jul 2 09:37:56 EDT 2020


On 2020-06-25 19:25, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> On 24/06/20 20:58, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> @@ -852,8 +841,7 @@ void arch_send_wakeup_ipi_mask(const struct 
>> cpumask *mask)
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_WORK
>>  void arch_irq_work_raise(void)
>>  {
>> -	if (__smp_cross_call)
>> -		smp_cross_call(cpumask_of(smp_processor_id()), IPI_IRQ_WORK);
>> +	smp_cross_call(cpumask_of(smp_processor_id()), IPI_IRQ_WORK);
> 
> AIU the following commit:
> 
>   eb631bb5bf5b ("arm64: Support arch_irq_work_raise() via self IPIs")
> 
> It seems arm64 hasn't needed that check since
> 
>   4b3dc9679cf7 ("arm64: force CONFIG_SMP=y and remove redundant 
> #ifdefs")
> 
> Did I get that right?

Indeed. SMP implies being able to IPI, and thus the check has been
irrelevant for some time now.

Thanks,

         M.
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