Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] arm: move GIC SGI kicking into separate function

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>]

On 12/02/2013 01:24 PM, Andre Przywara wrote:
> On 12/02/2013 02:16 PM, Julien Grall wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 12/02/2013 11:08 AM, Andre Przywara wrote:
>>> Currently we unconditionally send SGIs to all cores on SMP bringup.
>>> PSCI will not need this, so we move this into a function and call it
>>> explicitly from the platforms that need it. This gets us get rid of
>>> the empty cpu_up() platform functions in ARM32 and the comment in
>>> there.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@linaro.org>
>>> ---
>>>   xen/arch/arm/arm64/smpboot.c      |  2 +-
>>>   xen/arch/arm/platform.c           |  2 +-
>>>   xen/arch/arm/platforms/exynos5.c  | 11 +----------
>>>   xen/arch/arm/platforms/omap5.c    | 11 +----------
>>>   xen/arch/arm/platforms/vexpress.c | 10 +---------
>>>   xen/arch/arm/smpboot.c            | 15 ++++++++++-----
>>>   xen/include/asm-arm/smp.h         |  2 ++
>>>   7 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
>>>
>>
>> [..]
>>
>>> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/platform.c b/xen/arch/arm/platform.c
>>> index a7f9ee4..056d462 100644
>>> --- a/xen/arch/arm/platform.c
>>> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/platform.c
>>> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ int __init platform_cpu_up(int cpu)
>>>       if ( platform && platform->cpu_up )
>>>           return platform->cpu_up(cpu);
>>>
>>> -    return -EAGAIN;
>>> +    return -ENODEV;
>>
>> This change seems unrelated to this patch.
>
> That is disputable. If I read the original code directly, the intention
> of EAGAIN was like: "There is no platform specific code, try something
> else." Now with PSCI and the GIC kicking already folded into this
> function, the answer to "no PSCI and no platform code" is simply: I
> don't know how to enable SMP, so there is no SMP => ENODEV.
>
> I can add a comment if this helps.

Thanks for the explanation, I don't think it needs a comment.

Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>

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Julien Grall