From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nyushchenko@dev.rtsoft.ru (Nikita Yushchenko) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:05:37 +0300 Subject: [RFC/PATCH] arm: do not skip SMP init calls on SMP_ON_UP case In-Reply-To: <5654799E.5080903@dev.rtsoft.ru> References: <1448279946-19975-1-git-send-email-nyushchenko@dev.rtsoft.ru> <20151123120317.GN8644@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <5653015C.4020405@dev.rtsoft.ru> <56530769.4030403@arm.com> <5653099A.7020604@dev.rtsoft.ru> <56530AE6.2060407@dev.rtsoft.ru> <20151123130424.GQ8644@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <5654799E.5080903@dev.rtsoft.ru> Message-ID: <56547CC1.6000009@dev.rtsoft.ru> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org > I'm still trying to understand what is going on, and my printk()s show > that this is not entirely true. > > When smp_init() is entered on mainline om imx6s, cpu_possible_mask and > cpu_present_mask both contain two cpus. These get initialized in > arm_dt_init_cpu_maps() and stay unmodified since then. > > But cpu_online() returns 1 for cpu0 and 0 from cpu1 - thus it is > cpu_online() check, not possible_mask or present_mask, that prevents > cpu1 initialization attempt. Sorry was too quick to type. cpu_online(0) is true and cpu_online(1) is false. It is natural, since cpu0 is already running. Thus cpu_up(1) is entered!