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Consolidating the "pen_release" stuff amongst the various SoC
implementations gives credence to having a CPU holding pen for
secondary CPUs. However, this is far from the truth.
Many SoC implementations cargo-cult copied various bits of the pen
release implementation from the initial Realview/Versatile Express
implementation without understanding what it was or why it existed.
The reason it existed is because these are _development_ platforms,
and some board firmware is unable to individually control the
startup of secondary CPUs. Moreover, they do not have a way to
power down or reset secondary CPUs for hot-unplug. Hence, the
pen_release implementation was designed for ARM Ltd's development
platforms to provide a working implementation, even though it is
very far from what is required.
It was decided a while back to reduce the duplication by consolidating
the "pen_release" variable, but this only made the situation worse -
we have ended up with several implementations that read this variable
but do not write it - again, showing the cargo-cult mentality at work,
lack of proper review of new code, and in some cases a lack of testing.
While it would be preferable to remove pen_release entirely from the
kernel, this is not possible without help from the SoC maintainers,
which seems to be lacking. However, I want to remove pen_release from
arch code to remove the credence that having it gives.
This patch removes pen_release from the arch code entirely, adding
private per-SoC definitions for it instead, and explicitly stating
that write_pen_release() is cargo-cult copied and should not be
copied any further. Rename write_pen_release() in a similar fashion
as well.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
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These smp_operations structures are not over-written, so add "const"
qualifier and replace __initdata with __initconst.
Also, add "static" where it is possible.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> # qcom part
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@st.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Acked-by: Wei Xu <xuwei5@hisilicon.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Switch to my kernel.org alias instead of a badly named gmail address,
which I rarely use.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.
After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.
Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
and are flagged as __cpuinit -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
the arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
related content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get
rid of these warnings. In any case, they are temporary and harmless.
This removes all the ARM uses of the __cpuinit macros from C code,
and all __CPUINIT from assembly code. It also had two ".previous"
section statements that were paired off against __CPUINIT
(aka .section ".cpuinit.text") that also get removed here.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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Preparing to move the parsing of reboot= to generic kernel code forces
the change in reboot_mode handling to use the enum.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/arm/mach-socfpga/socfpga.c]
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This replaces an earlier patch from Viresh Kumar to move
the spear platform over to the generic DMA binding. This
version is now based on the merged multiplatform capable
spear platform, rather than the separate spear13xx/3xx/6xx
directories.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@linux.intel.com>
Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Shiraz Hashim <shiraz.hashim@st.com>
Cc: spear-devel@list.st.com
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Device drivers should not access MMIO registers through hardcoded
platform specific address constants. Instead, we can pass the
MMIO token to the spear clock driver in the initialization routine
to contain that knowledge in the platform code itself.
Ideally, the clock driver would use of_iomap() or similar to
get the address, and that can be used later, but for now, this
is the minimal change.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
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No file outside of mach-spear includes these files any more,
so they don't have to be globally visible now.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
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Russell King
Masahiro Yamada
Viresh Kumar
Paul Gortmaker
Robin Holt
Arnd Bergmann