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authorMasahiro Yamada2017-01-20 18:04:43 +0900
committerTom Rini2017-01-28 14:04:38 -0500
commit65f321966177895ecdd2bdd21f3770f1746a9f8b (patch)
treea6df4564f8bbac1adca4a96d4a175e0cc51e1cd4 /arch
parentab38bf6a3909bc773cbeec7b3997ba4686e6f93e (diff)
arm64: spin-table: add more information in Kconfig help
This feature seems to be sometimes misunderstood. The intention is: [1] Bring the slaves into the U-Boot proper image, not SPL (unless you have a special reason to do otherwise). [2] The operation must be done in a board (SoC) specific manner since how to wake the slaves from the Boot ROM is SoC specific. [3] The slaves must enter U-Boot proper after U-Boot relocates itself because the "cpu-release-addr" property points to the relocated memory area. [2] is already explained in the help. We can make [1] even clearer by mentioning "U-Boot proper" instead of "U-Boot". [3] is missing, so I am adding it to the list. Instead, "before the master CPU jumps to the kernel" is a matter of course, so removed. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/cpu/armv8/Kconfig6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/Kconfig b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/Kconfig
index 0b3d98ef2a7..0188b95e99f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/Kconfig
@@ -30,8 +30,10 @@ config ARMV8_SPIN_TABLE
To use this feature, you must do:
- Specify enable-method = "spin-table" in each CPU node in the
Device Tree you are using to boot the kernel
- - Let secondary CPUs in U-Boot (in a board specific manner)
- before the master CPU jumps to the kernel
+ - Bring secondary CPUs into U-Boot proper in a board specific
+ manner. This must be done *after* relocation. Otherwise, the
+ secondary CPUs will spin in unprotected memory area because the
+ master CPU protects the relocated spin code.
U-Boot automatically does:
- Set "cpu-release-addr" property of each CPU node