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Date:	Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:22:55 +0100
From:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] ARM: get rid of arch_cpu_idle_prepare()

On 01/27/2014 07:08 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> ARM and ARM64 are the only two architectures implementing
> arch_cpu_idle_prepare() simply to call local_fiq_enable().
>
> We have secondary_start_kernel() already calling local_fiq_enable() and
> this is done a second time in arch_cpu_idle_prepare() in that case. And
> enabling FIQs has nothing to do with idling the CPU to start with.
>
> So let's introduce init_fiq_boot_cpu() to take care of FIQs on the boot
> CPU and remove arch_cpu_idle_prepare(). This is now done a bit earlier
> at late_initcall time but this shouldn't make a difference in practice
> i.e. when FIQs are actually used.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>

> ---
>   arch/arm/kernel/process.c | 5 -----
>   arch/arm/kernel/setup.c   | 7 +++++++
>   2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
> index 92f7b15dd2..725b8c95e0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
> @@ -142,11 +142,6 @@ static void default_idle(void)
>   	local_irq_enable();
>   }
>
> -void arch_cpu_idle_prepare(void)
> -{
> -	local_fiq_enable();
> -}
> -
>   void arch_cpu_idle_enter(void)
>   {
>   	ledtrig_cpu(CPU_LED_IDLE_START);
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
> index 987a7f5bce..d027b1a6fe 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -789,6 +789,13 @@ static int __init init_machine_late(void)
>   }
>   late_initcall(init_machine_late);
>
> +static int __init init_fiq_boot_cpu(void)
> +{
> +	local_fiq_enable();
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +late_initcall(init_fiq_boot_cpu);
> +
>   #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
>   static inline unsigned long long get_total_mem(void)
>   {
>


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