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From: nyushchenko@dev.rtsoft.ru (Nikita Yushchenko)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC/PATCH] arm: do not skip SMP init calls on SMP_ON_UP case
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:06:52 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5653015C.4020405@dev.rtsoft.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151123120317.GN8644@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

23.11.2015 15:03, Russell King - ARM Linux ?????:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 02:59:06PM +0300, nyushchenko at dev.rtsoft.ru wrote:
>> From: Nikita Yushchenko <nyushchenko@dev.rtsoft.ru>
>>
>> While running an imx6s boasrd, I got following message in boot log:
>>
>> [    0.032414] CPU1: failed to boot: -38
>>
>> This looked strange: imx6s is singe-core and kernel perfectly knows
>> that. However, for some reason it tries to initialize CPU 1?
>>
>> I found this to be caused by
>> - CONFIG_SMP_ON_UP successfully detects that system is single core,
>> - this causes is_smp() to return false,
>> - this causes setup_arch() to skip smp_init_cpus() call,
>> - this skips board-specific code that sets cpu_possible mask.
> 
> Right, so you should end up with the possible and present masks
> containing just one CPU, which should prevent the kernel trying to
> bring any secondary CPUs online.

Kernel that is running here still tries to init CPU 1 for some reason.

Will try to check mainline (although not sure if that will be possible
on available custom hardware)

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-23 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-23 11:59 [RFC/PATCH] arm: do not skip SMP init calls on SMP_ON_UP case nyushchenko at dev.rtsoft.ru
2015-11-23 12:03 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-11-23 12:06   ` Nikita Yushchenko [this message]
2015-11-23 12:12     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-11-23 12:19       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-11-23 12:46         ` Nikita Yushchenko
2015-11-23 12:32     ` Vladimir Murzin
2015-11-23 12:42       ` Nikita Yushchenko
2015-11-23 12:47         ` Nikita Yushchenko
2015-11-23 13:04           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-11-24 14:52             ` Nikita Yushchenko
2015-11-24 15:05               ` Nikita Yushchenko
2015-11-24 15:28                 ` Nikita Yushchenko
2015-11-24 15:33               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-11-28 11:13                 ` Nikita Yushchenko
2015-11-30  8:25                   ` Nikita Yushchenko

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