[PATCH] powerpc: Do a bit more cpu init cleanups

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Wed Jun 28 08:54:01 EST 2006


On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 08:20:48AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 12:22 -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > Cleanup CPU inits a bit more, Geoff Levand already did some earlier.
> > 
> > * Rename cpu_setup_power4.S to cpu_setup_ppc970.S
> 
> > * Move CPU state save to cpu_setup, since cpu_setup is only ever done
> >   on cpu 0 on 64-bit.
> 
> Nah, keep that one separate, will be needed as soon as we start doing
> some sleep/wake stuff for ppc64

Why? I can see having to restore the settings on wake, but not doing a
brand new cpu_setup.

> > * Rename __restore_cpu_setup to __restore_cpu_setup_ppc970 since it's
> >   only actually doing anything there, and check before calling instead
> >   of in the function (no check needed on powermac).
> 
> I'd like to keep a generic save/restore.. that or we put then in
> cputable.

Keep? There never was one. :)

Since restore is called very first thing in smp secondary init, we don't
have cputable available.

> > * Same for __970_cpu_preinit
> > * Rename pSeries_secondary_smp_init to generic_secondary_smp_init since
> >   everyone but powermac and iSeries use it.
> 
> Ok.


-Olof



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