Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Add code to release secondary cores from holding pen.

[Maxime Coquelin]

Hi Kevin,

On 06/09/2015 05:43 PM, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Hi Maxime, Patrice, Srini, Kevin, Olof & Arnd,
> >
> > This patchset adds in the necessary code to manage the holding pen for STi
> > platforms.
> >
> > Due to all the STi upstream devs using JTAG to boot the STi boards, there
> > is currently a SMP bug when booting upstream kernels via u-boot where
> > only the primary core is brought up.
> >
> > This hasn't been noticed until now because when booting via JTAG the
> > stlinux_arm_boot script sets the PC of the secondary cores directly.
> >
> > With these patches applied booting via u-boot now works correctly.
> >
> > [    0.045456] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
> > [    0.045597] CPU0: thread -1, cpu 0, socket 0, mpidr 80000000
> > [    0.045734] Setting up static identity map for 0x40209000 - 0x40209098
> > [    0.065047] CPU1: thread -1, cpu 1, socket 0, mpidr 80000001
> > [    0.065081] Brought up 2 CPUs
> > [    0.065089] SMP: Total of 2 processors activated (5983.43 BogoMIPS).
> > [    0.065092] CPU: All CPU(s) started in SVC mode.
> >
> > Kevin / Olof / Arnd - Can you put this fix into the next ARM SoC fixes pull
> > request (if there is one)?
> At this stage of the cycle (we're already at -rc7) we limit things to
> strictly regression fixes, and seems this has been broken for some time,
> so I think this will have to wait for v4.2.
>
> After addresing the comments, Maxime should queue this up for arm-soc so
> we can get it in early in the v4.2-rc cycle.

Ok, I will take it for v4.2-rc cycle.

Thanks,
Maxime
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