linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers: firmware: psci: add __init mark to psci_dt_cpu_init

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Date:	Tue, 19 Apr 2016 18:15:12 +0100
From:	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
To:	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Cc:	Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...vell.com>, mark.rutland@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: firmware: psci: add __init mark to
 psci_dt_cpu_init_idle

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 04:20:38PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> 
> 
> On 19/04/16 16:05, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> >Hi Jisheng,
> >
> >On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:35:29PM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> >>psci_dt_cpu_init_idle() and psci_cpu_init_idle() are not needed after
> >>booting, so mark them as __init.
> >>
> 
> On the other hand, when I was trying to reuse arm_cpuidle_init to
> support ACPI LPIs, I found that we may need to remove __init tag on it
> as it gets called by hotplug notifiers in ACPI context.
> 
> I am not objecting this change, just mentioning with the hope to get
> solution to the above issue.

Yep, good point, it is not strictly necessary to merge it either
and I would avoid churning out changes given that we know we will
require to remove those __init tags anyway, so patch dropped.

Lorenzo