irq_bcm2836: Send event when onlining sleeping cores
authorPhil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.org>
Mon, 8 May 2017 15:43:40 +0000 (16:43 +0100)
committerRaspbian kernel package updater <root@raspbian.org>
Sun, 8 Oct 2017 01:08:04 +0000 (01:08 +0000)
commitf14285939439e9f5af6b0c17592fab78a9c410b3
tree96dad41723de37618d17fadb99a238f94f73b84c
parent2123909652f67f3db445c7d057c38f57279b8a39
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