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From: maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com (Maxime Ripard)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: AMR: sun7i: CPU hotplug support?
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:17:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141109231744.GC2989@lukather> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <545FC215.7010802@web.de>

Hi Jan,

On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 08:35:49PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> did anyone already happen to look into enabling CPU hotplug for the
> Allwinner A20 in upstream? I'm currently running the sunxi-next branch
> on Banana Pi, and echo 0 > .../cpu1/online just hangs the system. The
> old 3.4 LeMaker kernel works fine in this regard. I can try to look into
> details and port things over, just want to avoid duplicate efforts.

Having hotplug support would indeed be very welcome.

However, it should be done in u-boot, through PSCI, and not in the
kernel itself.

As far as I'm aware, no one worked actively on it, beside some WIP
commit from Marc a while ago:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/maz/u-boot.git/commit/?h=wip/psci&id=45379c0f9cf812f0f62722f4015ec907fa5dc144

Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Subject: Re: AMR: sun7i: CPU hotplug support?
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:17:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141109231744.GC2989@lukather> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <545FC215.7010802@web.de>

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Hi Jan,

On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 08:35:49PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> did anyone already happen to look into enabling CPU hotplug for the
> Allwinner A20 in upstream? I'm currently running the sunxi-next branch
> on Banana Pi, and echo 0 > .../cpu1/online just hangs the system. The
> old 3.4 LeMaker kernel works fine in this regard. I can try to look into
> details and port things over, just want to avoid duplicate efforts.

Having hotplug support would indeed be very welcome.

However, it should be done in u-boot, through PSCI, and not in the
kernel itself.

As far as I'm aware, no one worked actively on it, beside some WIP
commit from Marc a while ago:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/maz/u-boot.git/commit/?h=wip/psci&id=45379c0f9cf812f0f62722f4015ec907fa5dc144

Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-09 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-09 19:35 AMR: sun7i: CPU hotplug support? Jan Kiszka
2014-11-09 19:35 ` Jan Kiszka
2014-11-09 23:17 ` Maxime Ripard [this message]
2014-11-09 23:17   ` Maxime Ripard
2014-11-10  6:03   ` Jan Kiszka
2014-11-10  6:03     ` Jan Kiszka
2014-11-10  8:25     ` Jan Kiszka
2014-11-10  8:25       ` Jan Kiszka
2014-11-10  9:17       ` Marc Zyngier
2014-11-10  9:17         ` Marc Zyngier
2014-11-10  9:36         ` Jan Kiszka
2014-11-10  9:36           ` Jan Kiszka
2014-11-10  9:52           ` Marc Zyngier
2014-11-10  9:52             ` Marc Zyngier
2014-11-10 10:33             ` Jan Kiszka
2014-11-10 10:33               ` Jan Kiszka
2014-11-10 11:07               ` Marc Zyngier
2014-11-10 11:07                 ` Marc Zyngier

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