Re: [PATCH v4 10/13] firmware: arm_sdei: Add support for CPU and system power states

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 06:44:29PM +0100, James Morse wrote:
> When a CPU enters an idle lower-power state or is powering off, we
> need to mask SDE events so that no events can be delivered while we
> are messing with the MMU as the registered entry points won't be valid.
> 
> If the system reboots, we want to unregister all events and mask the CPUs.
> For kexec this allows us to hand a clean slate to the next kernel
> instead of relying on it to call sdei_{private,system}_data_reset().
> 
> For hibernate we unregister all events and re-register them on restore,
> in case we restored with the SDE code loaded at a different address.
> (e.g. KASLR).
> 
> Add all the notifiers necessary to do this. We only support shared events
> so all events are left registered and enabled over CPU hotplug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
_______________________________________________
kvmarm mailing list
kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm



[Index of Archives]     [Linux KVM]     [Spice Development]     [Libvirt]     [Libvirt Users]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux