Re: [PATCH v4] riscv: make sure the cores stay looping in .Lsecondary_park

[Paul Walmsley]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2020, Greentime Hu wrote:

> The code in secondary_park is currently placed in the .init section. The
> kernel reclaims and clears this code when it finishes booting. That
> causes the cores parked in it to go to somewhere unpredictable, so we
> move this function out of init to make sure the cores stay looping there.
> 
> The instruction bgeu a0, t0, .Lsecondary_park may have "a relocation
> truncated to fit" issue during linking time. It is because that sections
> are too far to jump. Let's use tail to jump to the .Lsecondary_park.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <greentime.hu@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, queued for v5.5-rc.  Anup's Reviewed-by: has been dropped since 
the patch changed significantly - Anup, if you are still happy with it, 
please reply with another Reviewed-by:.  Thanks,


- Paul