[CFT] Always enable SMP mode on MP capable CPUs

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at armlinux.org.uk
Thu May 25 07:48:00 PDT 2017


On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 08:38:47AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at armlinux.org.uk> [170519 10:19]:
> > We could expand the table to positively identify the SMP capable CPUs
> > and enable the SMP bit there, but it's going to add a lot of entries
> > there (one for each specific ARMv7 MP CPU) and is going to have to be
> > endlessly added to each time a new SMP CPU comes out.
> 
> Looks like commit e414690faa81 ("ARM: always enable SMP mode on SMP cores")
> causes booting to fail early at least on omap4430 duovero. It's a bit of
> a mystery as it is SMP.. And pandboard es (4460) and droid 4 (4430) work
> without the conditional write..
> 
> Partial revert like below seems to make it boot again.

Thanks for testing, I'll integrate your change, and it should be in
tonight's linux-next.

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