Russell King <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > So I think it's sanest to say that the arch shalt initialise cpu_possible_map
> > in setup_arch().
>
> Is that the only thing which needs to be initialised early for SMP, or
> are there other changes with early SMP init looming?
Well, I'm not aware of anything - just the patch "percpu data changes" I
sent to linux-arch the other day, which is related to this issue.
The whole early bootup what-the-arch-should-do-when protocol is rather a
mess, so I'm sure other things will need changing.
> The reason I ask is that the cleanest solution for ARM would be to
> introduce yet another initialisation function for MP platforms to
> implement, which setup_arch() will call after the initial page tables
> have been setup. Hence, I'm wondering if the platform specific parts
> could be simplified by moving more stuff earlier.
That sounds sane. Perhaps make it a generic setup_arch_platform() whose
mandate is "do whatever needs to be done for setup_arch()".
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