linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 02/20] arm64: capabilities: Move errata work around check on boot CPU

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Message-ID: <9e21e22a-b41c-ced0-48aa-6738f3b062d9@arm.com>
Date:   Wed, 7 Feb 2018 14:47:12 +0000
From:   Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>
To:     Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, mark.rutland@....com,
        ckadabi@...eaurora.org, ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org,
        marc.zyngier@....com, catalin.marinas@....com, will.deacon@....com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jnair@...iumnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/20] arm64: capabilities: Move errata work around
 check on boot CPU

On 07/02/18 10:37, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 06:27:49PM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>> We trigger CPU errata work around check on the boot CPU from
>> smp_prepare_boot_cpu() to make sure that we run the checks only
>> after the CPU feature infrastructure is initialised. While this
>> is correct, we can also do this from init_cpu_features() which
>> initilisation of the infrastructure, and is called only on the
> 
> Typo or missing words here?
> 
> Should this be "which initialises the infrastructure" or "which is
> called to initialise the infrastructure"?
> 
> With that (or any suitable rewording):

Correct. Will fix it.

> 
> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>

Thanks
Suzuki