Re: [PATCH 1/3] MIPS: Use do_kernel_restart() as the default restart handler

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On 01/11/2015 04:25 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
On 01/11/2015 01:15 PM, Måns Rullgård wrote:
Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On 01/10/2015 12:08 PM, Måns Rullgård wrote:
Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Use the recently introduced do_kernel_restart() function as the default restart
handler if the platform did not explicitly provide a restart handler. This
allows use restart handler that have been registered by device drivers to
restart the machine.

Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
   arch/mips/kernel/reset.c |    2 +-
   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/reset.c b/arch/mips/kernel/reset.c
index 07fc524..36cd80c 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/reset.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/reset.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
    * So handle all using function pointers to machine specific
    * functions.
    */
-void (*_machine_restart)(char *command);
+void (*_machine_restart)(char *command) = do_kernel_restart;
   void (*_machine_halt)(void);
   void (*pm_power_off)(void);

There is already a similar patch posted by Kevin Cernekee:
http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2014-12/msg00410.html

Personally I prefer the earlier patch, though I guess that is personal
preference.

They both achieve the same thing, though Kevin's is more in line with
what ARM does.  Missing from both is a fallback while(1) loop in case no
restart handlers are registered.  With the restart moved to the watchdog
driver, there's a possibility that this might happen.


In my opinion if such a fallback is needed it should be put into the kernel core reboot implementation and not into individual restart handler implementations.

Agreed.

My first version of this patch was do_kernel_restart() followed by a machine_halt() (so it goes to sleep instead of busy looping) as a fallback. But I couldn't find a good reason why that should be done at the individual restart handler level, so I dropped it.

That should probably be added to do_kernel_restart().

Guenter





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