Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Unify SMP stop generic logic to common code

[Cristian Marussi]

Hi Christoph

thanks for the review.

On 8/26/19 4:34 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:57:13PM +0100, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> > An architecture willing to rely on this SMP common logic has to define its
> > own helpers and set CONFIG_ARCH_USE_COMMON_SMP_STOP=y.
> > The series wire this up for arm64.
> >
> > Behaviour is not changed for architectures not adopting this new common
> > logic.
>
> Seens like this common code only covers arm64.  I think we should
> generally have at least two users for common code.

Yes absolutely, but this RFC was an attempt at first to explore if this
approach was deemed sensible upstream or not, so I wired up only arm64 for now.

Thanks

Cristian