[PATCH v2] arm: vexpress: tc2: fix hotplug/idle/kexec race on cluster power down

Dave Martin
2013-09-30T16:33:06Z

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 09:29:04AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:12:25PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
> >
> > ARM-SOC dudes: would you please pick this up?
>
> I can't tell if this is actually needed for 3.12, since kexec isn't supported
> without the set of patches that Dave Martin just posted.

I believe some problems have been seen when mixing hotplug with idle,
even if kexec is out of the picture. This was a known issue before I
started playing with kexec.

This should be considered a separate patch.

Cheers
---Dave

>
> Anyway, the fix is tiny so I applied it to the for-3.12 fixes branch anyway.
>
>
> -Olof
>
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