On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 06:08:17AM +0000, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > ARM and ARM64 are the only two architectures implementing > arch_cpu_idle_prepare() simply to call local_fiq_enable(). > > We have secondary_start_kernel() already calling local_fiq_enable() and > this is done a second time in arch_cpu_idle_prepare() in that case. And > enabling FIQs has nothing to do with idling the CPU to start with. > > So let's introduce init_fiq_boot_cpu() to take care of FIQs on the boot > CPU and remove arch_cpu_idle_prepare(). This is now done a bit earlier > at late_initcall time but this shouldn't make a difference in practice > given that FIQs are not currently used on ARM64. > > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <n...@linaro.org>
For arm64, we could simply remove any reference to FIQs. I'm not aware of anyone using them. -- Catalin _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
