On 03/28/2014 04:12 PM, Alex Elder wrote:

This series proposes creating a single implementation of the "pen
release" (or spin-table) mechanism for starting secondary CPUs on

. . .

  	
  ARM: spear: use central SMP spin-table routines
    This is straightforward as well, but it depends on the
    two prerequisite patches mentioned above (which together
    make this code roughly identical to the rest).

Here are the patches, which I neglected to mention after all:

    http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg315833.html
    http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg318735.html