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[v4,1/7] arm64: Add a helper for parking CPUs in a loop

Message ID 1453745225-27736-2-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Suzuki K Poulose Jan. 25, 2016, 6:06 p.m. UTC 
From: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>

Adds a routine which can be used to park CPUs (spinning in kernel)
when they can't be killed.

Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
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(-)
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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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