[PATCH] arm64: hw-breakpoint: Remove superfluous SMP function call

Suzuki K. Poulose Suzuki.Poulose at arm.com
Tue Apr 5 02:26:50 PDT 2016


On 04/04/16 11:42, Anna-Maria Gleixner wrote:
> Since commit 1cf4f629d9d2 ("cpu/hotplug: Move online calls to
> hotplugged cpu") it is ensured that callbacks of CPU_ONLINE and
> CPU_DOWN_PREPARE are processed on the hotplugged cpu. Due to this SMP
> function calls are no longer required.
>
> Replace smp_call_function_single() with a direct call of
> hw_breakpoint_reset(). To keep the calling convention, interrupts are
> explicitely disabled around the call.

While you are at it, could you please also fix a similar instance
in arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c: hw_breakpoint_reset_notify() ?

Thanks
Suzuki




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