Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] MIPS: Octeon: fix for held reboot_mutex lock at task exit time

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

Sorry for the late reply - this ended up in the moderator queue for the
mailing list and I rarely look at it - it's tens of thousands of emails!
  
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:58:34PM +0400, Maxim Uvarov wrote:

> >> diff --git a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/**setup.c b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/
> >> **setup.c
> >> index b0baa29..04ce396 100644
> >> --- a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/**setup.c
> >> +++ b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/**setup.c
> >> @@ -457,6 +457,10 @@ static void octeon_halt(void)
> >>         }
> >>
> >>         octeon_kill_core(NULL);
> >> +
> >> +       /* We stop here */
> >> +       while (1)
> >> +               ;
> >>
> >
> > I want to put a WAIT here so we don't burn so much power.
> >
> > I will send a patch to do that instead.
> >
> >
> what about adding wait for other mips boards where is while (1) is used?

Many platforms have their own variants of eternal loops, some using
just "while (1);", others trying to save power using the WAIT instruction.
I was planing to work through all of them and come up with a common
defaut implementation.

  Ralf