[PATCH v2 6/6] [RFC] arm: use PSCI if available

Stefano Stabellini stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com
Tue Mar 26 11:09:02 EDT 2013


On Tue, 26 Mar 2013, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 March 2013, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > Check for the presence of PSCI before setting smp_ops, use PSCI if it is
> > available.
> > 
> > This is useful because at least when running on Xen it's possible to have a
> > PSCI node for example on a Versatile Express or an Exynos5 machine. In these
> > cases the PSCI SMP calls should be the ones to be called.
> > 
> > Remove virt_smp_ops and platsmp.c from mach-virt because they aren't needed
> > anymore.
> 
> Very nice, I had a similar idea but had not gotten around to write a patch.
> This fits in nicely with my plans to make all fields of machine_desc optional.
> 
> >  void __init smp_set_ops(struct smp_operations *ops)
> >  {
> > -       if (ops)
> > +       int rc = -ENODEV;
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_PSCI
> > +       rc = psci_init(&smp_ops);
> > +#endif
> > +       if (rc && ops)
> >                smp_ops = *ops;
> >  };
> 
> Could you move this into the caller, i.e. setup_arch() so we call smp_set_ops
> either for psci_smp_ops or for machine_desc->smp?

Sure, I can do that.



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