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Re: [PATCH] ARM: owl: smp: Drop owl_secondary_boot()

From Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] ARM: owl: smp: Drop owl_secondary_boot()
Date 2017-07-06 19:40 +0200
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On 06/07/2017 at 19:17:28 +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 05.07.2017 um 04:36 schrieb Florian Fainelli:
> > On July 4, 2017 4:32:18 PM PDT, "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de> wrote:
> >> Commit 18cfd9429d8a82c49add8f3ca9d366599bfcac45 ("ARM: owl: smp: Drop
> >> bogus holding pen") simplified the S500 SMP code by removing a loop for
> >> pen_release in owl_secondary_boot(). Since then it is only calling
> >> owl_v7_invalidate_l1() before branching to secondary_startup().
> >>
> >> The owl_v7_invalidate_l1() assembler function is superfluous, too.
> >> Therefore drop owl_secondary_boot() and use secondary_boot() directly.
> >>
> >> Cc: David Liu <liuwei@actions-semi.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
> >> ---
> > 
> >> -	writel(virt_to_phys(owl_secondary_startup),
> >> +	writel(virt_to_phys(secondary_startup),
> >> 	       timer_base_addr + OWL_CPU1_ADDR + (cpu - 1) * 4);
> > 
> > This is a kernel symbol so please use __pa_symbol() here, also you might want to build with CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL and see if you get other warnings about using virt_to_phys() in the owl platform code (I did not check if there are other uses)
> 
> Thanks for the report. There are no other such uses in mach-actions, but
> git-grep'ing for virt_to_phys in arch/arm/mach-* I spot at least one
> other such usage in mach-oxnas:
> 
> arch/arm/mach-oxnas/platsmp.c:
> writel(virt_to_phys(ox820_secondary_startup),
> 
> as well as this in mach-mvebu:
> 
> arch/arm/mach-mvebu/platsmp.c:  writel(virt_to_phys(boot_addr), base +
> MV98DX3236_CPU_RESUME_ADDR_REG);
> 
> and these in mach-at91:
> 
> arch/arm/mach-at91/pm.c:        pm_bu->canary = virt_to_phys(&canary);
> arch/arm/mach-at91/pm.c:        pm_bu->resume = virt_to_phys(cpu_resume);
> 

They can probably use __pa_symbol() (I must admit I didn't know about
it before this email)


-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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[PATCH] ARM: owl: smp: Drop owl_secondary_boot() Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> - 2017-07-05 01:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] ARM: owl: smp: Drop owl_secondary_boot() Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2017-07-05 04:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] ARM: owl: smp: Drop owl_secondary_boot() Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> - 2017-07-06 19:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] ARM: owl: smp: Drop owl_secondary_boot() Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2017-07-06 19:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] ARM: owl: smp: Drop owl_secondary_boot() Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2017-07-06 21:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] ARM: owl: smp: Drop owl_secondary_boot() Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2017-07-07 09:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] ARM: owl: smp: Drop owl_secondary_boot() Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2017-07-07 19:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] ARM: owl: smp: Drop owl_secondary_boot() Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-07-06 19:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] ARM: owl: smp: Drop owl_secondary_boot() Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2017-07-06 23:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] ARM: owl: smp: Drop owl_secondary_boot() Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> - 2017-07-10 00:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] ARM: owl: smp: Drop owl_secondary_boot() Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2017-07-10 06:30 +0200

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