On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 04:37:07PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 02:56:53PM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > This reverts commit 904464b91eca8c665acea033489225af02eeb75a.
> >
> > The problem pointed out by commit 904464b91eca ("ARM: 7655/1:
> > smp_twd: make twd_local_timer_of_register() no-op for nosmp")
> > doesn't exist anymore.
> >
> > We can safely boot with nosmp and the warning won't show up.
> >
> > The other side benefit of this patch is that TWD has a chance
> > to probe on single-core A9 systems such as AM437x which sport
> > TWD.
>
> I don't remember all the details from Feb 2013 on why we made that
> change. If this is proven safe, then I guess it's okay.
Do you want me to upload to your patch system and, perhaps, keep in
linux-next for v4.4 merge window ? (too late for v4.3 I guess).
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balbi
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