[PATCH 1/9] ARM: get rid of arch_cpu_idle_prepare()

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Jan 28 03:07:36 EST 2014


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 09:22:55AM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 01/27/2014 07:08 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> ARM and ARM64 are the only two architectures implementing
>> arch_cpu_idle_prepare() simply to call local_fiq_enable().
>>
>> We have secondary_start_kernel() already calling local_fiq_enable() and
>> this is done a second time in arch_cpu_idle_prepare() in that case. And
>> enabling FIQs has nothing to do with idling the CPU to start with.
>>
>> So let's introduce init_fiq_boot_cpu() to take care of FIQs on the boot
>> CPU and remove arch_cpu_idle_prepare(). This is now done a bit earlier
>> at late_initcall time but this shouldn't make a difference in practice
>> i.e. when FIQs are actually used.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org>

What kind of review did you do when giving that attributation?

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