[PATCH v3] [RFC] arm: use PSCI if available

Stefano Stabellini stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com
Wed Mar 27 14:14:48 EDT 2013


On Wed, 27 Mar 2013, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 March 2013, Rob Herring wrote:
> > No, I was thinking in the case of Xen and mach-virt, you would not set
> > mdesc->smp. So you would have something like this:
> > 
> > if (mdesc->smp)
> >         smp_set_ops(mdesc->smp);
> > else
> >         smp_set_ops(&psci_smp_ops);
> 
> The case that Stefano is interested in if obviously other platforms
> that can either run as Dom0 under Xen with psci_smp_ops or natively
> with their own smp_ops. A similar case would be a platform that
> may implement psci using smc when run in secure mode but provide
> its own smp_ops when run natively.

That's correct.


> In both cases, it would be simpler to use psci if available but
> fall back to mdesc->smp otherwise.

I agree.



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