[PATCH v5 1/7] arm64: Add a helper for parking CPUs in a loop
From: suzuki.poulose@arm.com (Suzuki K Poulose)
Date: 2016-02-23 10:32:13
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Subsystem:
arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers:
Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds
Adds a routine which can be used to park CPUs (spinning in kernel) when they can't be killed. Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <redacted> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> --- arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h | 8 ++++++++ arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 5 +---- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h
index d9c3d6a..53b53a9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h@@ -69,4 +69,12 @@ extern int __cpu_disable(void); extern void __cpu_die(unsigned int cpu); extern void cpu_die(void); +static inline void cpu_park_loop(void) +{ + for (;;) { + wfe(); + wfi(); + } +} + #endif /* ifndef __ASM_SMP_H */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 5c90aa4..cc4a089 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c@@ -842,10 +842,7 @@ static void fail_incapable_cpu(char *cap_type, /* Check if we can park ourselves */ if (cpu_ops[cpu] && cpu_ops[cpu]->cpu_die) cpu_ops[cpu]->cpu_die(cpu); - asm( - "1: wfe\n" - " wfi\n" - " b 1b"); + cpu_park_loop(); } /*
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