[PATCH v2 7/7] ARM: smp: Add runtime PM support for CPU hotplug

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 11:02:11AM -0600, Lina Iyer wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04 2015 at 10:23 -0600, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >You're taking the behaviour of the hardware you have in front of you
> >and claiming that it's true everywhere, and shoving that into generic
> >code.
> >
> >I know, for example on OMAP, you have to power up the CPU first before
> >you can "wake" it.
> >
> >I wouldn't be surprised if other SoCs are like that: where they require
> >the CPU core to be powered and held in reset, before releasing the reset
> >to then allow them to start executing the secondary core bringup.
> >
> It would still require that the CPU's domain be powered on in the hw,
> before the CPU can run Linux.
> 
> >Relying on hardware to do this sounds really fragile and bad design to
> >me.
> >
> >If you want to persue your current design, don't make it generic code,
> >because it's got no right to be generic with assumptions like that.
> >
> Hmm, okay. I can look at alternatives like  hotplug notifiers.

How about putting the pm resume in path of the _requesting_ CPU?
IOW, in __cpu_up().

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