Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:43:15 +0000 | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/9] ARM64: get rid of arch_cpu_idle_prepare() |
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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 <nico@linaro.org>
For arm64, we could simply remove any reference to FIQs. I'm not aware of anyone using them.
-- Catalin
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