28 Apr
2008
28 Apr
'08
6:57 p.m.
On Apr 28, 2008, at 4:07 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
In message Pine.LNX.4.64.0804280223420.4305@blarg.am.freescale.net you wrote:
- adjust __spin_table alignment to match ePAPR v0.94 spec
- loop over all cpus when determing who is up. This fixes an issue
if the "boot cpu" isn't core0. The "boot cpu" will already be in the cpu_up_mask so there is no harm
- Added some protection in the code to ensure proper behavior. These
changes are explicitly needed but don't hurt:
- Added eieio to ensure the "hot word" of the table is written after all other table updates have occurred.
- Added isync to ensure we don't prefetch loading of table entries until we a released
These issues we raised by Dave Liu.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala galak@kernel.crashing.org
Will Andy send a pull request or shall I apply directly?
just apply directly.
- k