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Date:   Wed, 20 Nov 2019 10:49:34 +0000
From:   Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] ia64: Replace cpu_down with freeze_secondary_cpus
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On 11/20/19 09:46, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2019, Qais Yousef wrote:
> > On 11/19/19 23:59, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2019, Qais Yousef wrote:
> > > > My plan was to simply make freeze_secondary_cpus() available and protected by
> > > > CONFIG_SMP only instead.
> > > > 
> > > > Good plan?
> > > 
> > > No. freeze_secondary_cpus() is really for hibernation. Look at the exit
> > > conditions there.
> > 
> > Hmm do you mean the pm_wakeup_pending() abort?
> > 
> > In arm64 we machine_shutdown() calls disable_nonboot_cpus(), which in turn
> > a wrapper around freeze_secondary_cpus() with 0 passed as an argument.
> > 
> > IIUC this means arm64 could fail to offline all CPUs on machine_shutdown(),
> > correct?
> 
> Looks like.

Okay I'll double check and introduce a new function to be called from
machine_down() for arm64 and ia64 if necessary.

Thanks

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Qais Yousef