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irq_bcm2836: Send event when onlining sleeping cores
authorPhil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.org>
Mon, 8 May 2017 15:43:40 +0000 (16:43 +0100)
committerKhalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:06:45 +0000 (17:06 -0500)
commit15c763d5c8728775708fa258b4c07b884272a711
treece1fdd90bb912632c394f1f49de62f31d6f4c73c
parent795c135d7dafdc942890fe0afdca9b5203344e6c
irq_bcm2836: Send event when onlining sleeping cores

In order to reduce power consumption and bus traffic, it is sensible
for secondary cores to enter a low-power idle state when waiting to
be started. The wfe instruction causes a core to wait until an event
or interrupt arrives before continuing to the next instruction.
The sev instruction sends a wakeup event to the other cores, so call
it from bcm2836_smp_boot_secondary, the function that wakes up the
waiting cores during booting.

It is harmless to use this patch without the corresponding change
adding wfe to the ARMv7/ARMv8-32 stubs, but if the stubs are updated
and this patch is not applied then the other cores will sleep forever.

See: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1989

Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.org>
drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm2836.c