[PATCH] riscv: smp: fix non-SPINWAIT secondary hart rendezvous for fw_dynamic platforms
Paul Walmsley
pjw at kernel.org
Sun Oct 4 16:32:02 PDT 2026
On Wed, 29 Jul 2026, Paul Sherman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 05:13:56PM -0500, Samuel Holland wrote:
>
> > Why doesn't your firmware do that? Can you fix your firmware?
>
> Is your expectation that platforms exhibiting this behavior should
> be corrected to satisfy the ordered booting contract, rather than
> Linux handling SBI_ERR_ALREADY_STARTED defensively?
For folks running mainline kernels, I think it's reasonable to expect that
they would update OpenSBI to fix a bug in OpenSBI, rather than patching
the upstream kernel to hack around it. Hopefully there's nothing
preventing them from doing that on this platform.
- Paul
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