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[PATCH v2] ARM: Define wfi() macro for v6 processors

From: Russell King - ARM Linux <hidden>
Date: 2011-02-08 11:08:08
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On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:01:25AM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
For v6, wfi is architected as a defined MCR instruction, so
use that definition.

Doing a no-op instead of wfi() is probably bad, so for older
processors than v6, wfi() is not defined.  If needed, some CPU-
specific wfi() will have to be defined elsewhere.
This is something we kind-of already handle in a different way - see
the individual processor idle function in arch/arm/mm/proc*.S.

There's various errata work-arounds older CPUs need for wfi (or rather
its mcr equivalent) so maybe wfi() should just be an alias for a call
to that function.  Or maybe we shouldn't have a wfi() macro at all.
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