ARM: 8338/1: kexec: Relax SMP validation to improve DT compatibility
authorGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Wed, 1 Apr 2015 12:36:57 +0000 (13:36 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Thu, 2 Apr 2015 08:59:43 +0000 (09:59 +0100)
commitfee3fd4fd2ad136b26226346c3f8b446cc120bf5
tree268dd284a31aa2926112aa0eb1cd28990beb045c
parent045ab94e10ee17038066d71abc8fdce719ab56f9
ARM: 8338/1: kexec: Relax SMP validation to improve DT compatibility

When trying to kexec into a new kernel on a platform where multiple CPU
cores are present, but no SMP bringup code is available yet, the
kexec_load system call fails with:

    kexec_load failed: Invalid argument

The SMP test added to machine_kexec_prepare() in commit 2103f6cba61a8b8b
("ARM: 7807/1: kexec: validate CPU hotplug support") wants to prohibit
kexec on SMP platforms where it cannot disable secondary CPUs.
However, this test is too strict: if the secondary CPUs couldn't be
enabled in the first place, there's no need to disable them later at
kexec time.  Hence skip the test in the absence of SMP bringup code.

This allows to add all CPU cores to the DTS from the beginning, without
having to implement SMP bringup first, improving DT compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/include/asm/smp_plat.h
arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c
arch/arm/kernel/smp.c