Re: [PATCH 5/5] ARM: actions: remove boot_lock and pen_release

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On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 05:31:53PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:55:57AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > The actions SMP implementation has several issues:
> > 
> > 1. pen_release is only ever read and compared to -1, and is defined in
> >    arch/arm/kernel/smp.c to be -1.  This test will always succeed.
> > 
> > 2. we are already guaranteed to be single threaded while bringing up a
> >    CPU, so the spinlock makes no sense, remove it.
> > 
> > 3. owl_secondary_startup() is not referenced nor defined, the prototype
> >    is redundant, remove it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hi Russel,
> 
> Is this patch a superset of https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg694546.html?

Probably not, I couldn't find which platform Linus had already done in
my mailbox, so I just did those that I could see in the kernel tree.

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