Adding linux-tegra in Cc. On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 03:30 +0800, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense > some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings > do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in > commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time") > is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created > with improper use of the various __init prefixes. > > After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go > the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone, > we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h. > > Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since > notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c) > and are flagged as __cpuinit -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from > the arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings. > As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit > related content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get > rid of these warnings. In any case, they are temporary and harmless. > > This removes all the ARM uses of the __cpuinit macros from C code, > and all __CPUINIT from assembly code. It also had two ".previous" > section statements that were paired off against __CPUINIT > (aka .section ".cpuinit.text") that also get removed here. > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589 > > Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > [This commit is part of the __cpuinit removal work. If you don't see > any problems with it, then you don't have to do anything ; it will be > submitted with all the rest of the __cpuinit removal work. On the > other hand, if you want to carry this patch in with your other pending > changes so as to handle conflicts with other pending work yourself, then > that is fine too, as the commits can largely be treated independently. > For more information, please see: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/20/513 ] > Hi Paul, I just tested this series on Tegra platform. It looks broken CPU hotplug function for Tegra at least. The CPU can't plug-in after unplugging. And the system resume function also not working when "enable_nonboot_cpus". Both of the issue cause system hang up. Are we missing something for __cpuinit removal work? Thanks, Joseph -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html