[PATCH v2] arm: vexpress: tc2: fix hotplug/idle/kexec race on cluster power down

Dave Martin Dave.Martin at arm.com
Mon Sep 30 12:33:06 EDT 2013


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 09:29:04AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:12:25PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
> > 
> > ARM-SOC dudes: would you please pick this up?
> 
> I can't tell if this is actually needed for 3.12, since kexec isn't supported
> without the set of patches that Dave Martin just posted.

I believe some problems have been seen when mixing hotplug with idle,
even if kexec is out of the picture.  This was a known issue before I
started playing with kexec.

This should be considered a separate patch.

Cheers
---Dave

> 
> Anyway, the fix is tiny so I applied it to the for-3.12 fixes branch anyway.
> 
> 
> -Olof
> 
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