Re: [UPDATED PATCH 21/27] sparc32, smpboot: Use generic SMPbooting infrastructure

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Jun 01 2012 - 18:53:40 EST


From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 04:17:47 +0530

>
> Convert sparc32 to use the generic framework to boot secondary CPUs.
>
> Notes:
> While removing the call to cpu_idle(), we can also remove the call to
> cpu_panic() because we are calling BUG() in the generic code anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Almost there, but not quite yet.

You can't get rid of the cpu_panic invocations, those have to be there
after the *_callin calls to catch if they accidently return.
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