Re: [PATCH 3/6] ARM: EXYNOS: add Exynos Dual Cluster Support

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Dave Martin wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 08:17:04PM +0400, Vyacheslav Tyrtov wrote:
> > +static int exynos_power_up(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int cluster)
> > +{
> > +     int ret;
> > +     local_irq_disable();
> 
> Should there be a local_fiq_disable() here also?

No.  In fact this is paired with

> > +     arch_spin_lock(&exynos_lock);

to create the equivalent of a arch_spin_lock_irq().  And the reason is:

/*
 * We can't use regular spinlocks. In the switcher case, it is possible
 * for an outbound CPU to call power_down() after its inbound counterpart
 * is already live using the same logical CPU number which trips lockdep
 * debugging.
 */

Otherwise we simply would have used spin_lock_irq().

No FIQs are supposed to ever race with this code.


Nicolas
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