Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] arm64: Move kill_cpu_early to smp.c | From | "Suzuki K. Poulose" <> | Date | Tue, 1 Dec 2015 18:10:17 +0000 |
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On 01/12/15 17:52, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 05:38:54PM +0000, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: >> On 01/12/15 16:31, Mark Rutland wrote: > > [...] > >>> We need stuck-in-the-kernel flag to account for CPUs which didn't manage >>> to turn the MMU on (which are either in the spin-table, or failed when >>> they were individually onlined). >> >> Did you mean to say "turn the MMU off" ? > > No, I mean CPUs which were unable to turn the MMU on in the first place. > Perhaps they entered the spin-table but were never individually onlined, > perhaps they didn't support the kernel page size, etc. > > When CPUs exit the kernel via PSCI they never switch the MMU off within > the kernel.
OK. So the flag will also be used for CPUs which are stuck-in-the-kernel with MMU turned on. e.g, a CPU (using spin-table) we try to bring down in kill_cpu_early(). Correct ?
Thanks Suzuki
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