From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/arm64: Avoid sending SGI when kicking secondary cpus with spin_table Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 17:39:50 +0100 Message-ID: <1431103190.2660.543.camel@citrix.com> References: <1428392032-11551-1-git-send-email-cbz@baozis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1428392032-11551-1-git-send-email-cbz@baozis.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Chen Baozi Cc: Chen Baozi , julien.grall@linaro.org, xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 15:33 +0800, Chen Baozi wrote: > From: Chen Baozi > > On arm64, either firmware or xen's smp_up_cpu gate uses WFE on secondary > cpus to stand-by when booting. Thus, using SEV is enough for the boot > cpu to kick other secondaries. Further more, the current implementation > of cpu_up_send_sgi would pass a NULL cpumask pointer to send_SGI, which > then lead a data fault on GICv3 send_SGI implementation. > > Signed-off-by: Chen Baozi I think we concluded this was correct for arm64, so acked + applied.