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authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2010-12-02 19:10:01 +0000
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2010-12-20 15:08:28 +0000
commitaec66ba1f75c2030cf66f5a21d1c81aa83aa5d95 (patch)
tree355074ac8fb90a7261557f5568cdf407e2deaeb8 /arch/arm/mach-realview
parentfd778f0ad7dda1108281410ddca0d07936256d3c (diff)
ARM: SMP: get rid of references to poke_milo and Milo
Milo is an old boot loader, which is no longer relevant for these platforms. References to it are misleading. Move the code out of poke_milo(), and remove references to milo in comments. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/mach-realview')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/mach-realview/platsmp.c44
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-realview/platsmp.c b/arch/arm/mach-realview/platsmp.c
index 6595e875fb2..ef3cc86f514 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-realview/platsmp.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-realview/platsmp.c
@@ -99,14 +99,9 @@ int __cpuinit boot_secondary(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
flush_cache_all();
/*
- * XXX
- *
- * This is a later addition to the booting protocol: the
- * bootMonitor now puts secondary cores into WFI, so
- * poke_milo() no longer gets the cores moving; we need
- * to send a soft interrupt to wake the secondary core.
- * Use smp_cross_call() for this, since there's little
- * point duplicating the code here
+ * Send the secondary CPU a soft interrupt, thereby causing
+ * the boot monitor to read the system wide flags register,
+ * and branch to the address found there.
*/
smp_cross_call(cpumask_of(cpu), 1);
@@ -128,22 +123,6 @@ int __cpuinit boot_secondary(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
return pen_release != -1 ? -ENOSYS : 0;
}
-static void __init poke_milo(void)
-{
- /* nobody is to be released from the pen yet */
- pen_release = -1;
-
- /*
- * Write the address of secondary startup into the system-wide flags
- * register. The BootMonitor waits for this register to become
- * non-zero.
- */
- __raw_writel(BSYM(virt_to_phys(realview_secondary_startup)),
- __io_address(REALVIEW_SYS_FLAGSSET));
-
- mb();
-}
-
/*
* Initialise the CPU possible map early - this describes the CPUs
* which may be present or become present in the system.
@@ -189,13 +168,6 @@ void __init smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus)
for (i = 0; i < max_cpus; i++)
set_cpu_present(i, true);
- /*
- * Initialise the SCU if there are more than one CPU and let
- * them know where to start. Note that, on modern versions of
- * MILO, the "poke" doesn't actually do anything until each
- * individual core is sent a soft interrupt to get it out of
- * WFI
- */
if (max_cpus > 1) {
/*
* Enable the local timer or broadcast device for the
@@ -204,6 +176,14 @@ void __init smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus)
percpu_timer_setup();
scu_enable(scu_base_addr());
- poke_milo();
+
+ /*
+ * Write the address of secondary startup into the
+ * system-wide flags register. The BootMonitor waits
+ * until it receives a soft interrupt, and then the
+ * secondary CPU branches to this address.
+ */
+ __raw_writel(BSYM(virt_to_phys(realview_secondary_startup)),
+ __io_address(REALVIEW_SYS_FLAGSSET));
}
}