On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 04:39:08PM -0700, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> Hi Maxime,
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:18 AM, maxime.ripard
> <maxime.rip...@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > Hi Kevin,
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:05:06PM +0800, kevin.z.m...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> >> One question I couldn't find any answer to is that does the SMP bit is
> >> >> set in secondary_startup?
> >> >>
> >> >> I couldn't find where it was set, but it still looks like the right
> >> >> thing to do, so I would expect the code to do that.
> >> >
> >> > I don't see it either. The sun8i code is just the sun6i code with the
> >> > power clamps removed. And sun6i secondary_startup was removed some time
> >> > ago in commit 1146b600044d ("ARM: sunxi: fix build for THUMB2_KERNEL").
> >> >
> >> > ChenYu
> >>
> >> The SMP bit should be set in the function of "__v7_ca7mp_setup", which is
> >> located
> >> in the file:
> >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S?id=refs/tags/v4.0-rc4
> >> I'm not sure if this is your discussion.
> >
> > It is, but I wasn't seeing it called anywhere in the secondary_startup
> > code path.
> >
> > I was expecting a direct call, but it looks like it's a dynamic call,
> > with a function-pointer like call, that is indeed run both in the
> > kernel entry point and the secondary_startup.
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm/kernel/head.S?id=refs/tags/v4.0-rc4#n389
>
> Are we waiting for Marc's input on this?Hmm, no, not really, I just forgot about it :) I'll merge the patches. Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com
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