From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [CFT] Always enable SMP mode on MP capable CPUs
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 10:10:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170525171000.GD10472@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170525165651.GK22219@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>
* Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> [170525 10:00]:
> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 09:15:19AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > On 05/18/2017 03:52 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > As a result of a recent bug report, it has been found that certain CPUs
> > > must always have SMP mode enabled in order for the caches to work.
> > >
> > > Remove the conditional on setting the SMP bit(s).
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
> > > ---
> > > This needs to be tested on:
> > >
> > > - Cortex A5MP
> > > - Cortex A9MP
> > > - Cortex R7MP
> > > - Cortex A7MP
> > > - Cortex A12MP
> > > - Cortex A15MP
> > > - Cortex A17MP
> > > - Brahma B15
> >
> > Sorry just saw this, what kind of test do you want me to run on B15?
> > Should I build a !SMP kernel, or force a SMP kernel with maxcpus=1?
>
> What I'm after is testing on any single-core systems with these SMP
> capable cores. If the core never appears in a single-core configuration,
> then please let me know so it can be crossed off the list.
>
> With the bug that crept in fixed (as pointed out by Tony) there is no
> difference for kernels built with SMP enabled and detected as a SMP
> capable CPU.
At least am437x needs to be tested as it's UP with some quirks.
Regards,
Tony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-25 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-18 10:52 [CFT] Always enable SMP mode on MP capable CPUs Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-05-18 18:09 ` Fabio Estevam
2017-05-19 17:07 ` Fabio Estevam
2017-05-19 17:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-05-24 15:38 ` Tony Lindgren
2017-05-25 14:48 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-05-25 15:11 ` Tony Lindgren
2017-05-25 18:05 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-05-25 22:13 ` Tony Lindgren
2017-05-26 11:22 ` afzal mohammed
2017-05-27 13:22 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-05-31 14:39 ` Tony Lindgren
2017-05-31 14:59 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-05-31 15:07 ` Tony Lindgren
2017-05-24 15:50 ` afzal mohammed
2017-05-25 16:15 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-25 16:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-05-25 17:10 ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2017-05-25 17:24 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-26 9:44 ` Vladimir Murzin
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