Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] arm64: smp: move the pen to a header file

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Apr 09 2015 - 17:18:05 EST


On Thursday 09 April 2015 12:37:10 Kumar Gala wrote:
> From: Abhimanyu Kapur <abhimany@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Move the secondary_pen_release variable and the secondary_holding_pen
> entry function to asm/smp_plat.h so that the other cpu ops implementations
> can share them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Abhimanyu Kapur <abhimany@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>

I don't believe your SMP implementation can be so broken to require this.
Please fix the code instead to not use a holding pen.

Arnd
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