[PATCH 5/8] score: Add _Per_CPU_Is_boot_processor()

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Fri Mar 4 11:58:10 UTC 2016



On 03/03/16 16:18, Joel Sherrill wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Sebastian Huber 
> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de 
> <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>> wrote:
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>     On 03/03/16 16:12, Joel Sherrill wrote:
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>         Other than bookkeeping, what is this going to be used for?
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>     Its used later in the watchdog tick. The boot processor manages
>     the wall clock time.
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>         How is it configured? The _SMP_Fatal() call at the end of the
>         patch hints
>         that there is some related configuration.
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>     The boot processor is the processor that performs the sequential
>     system initialization. This name is used in several other places.
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> And it is configured currently? Just checking.
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> I didn't have a problem with the name.

The low level architecture/chip/board/bootloader dependent code 
determines the boot processor. It is the processor that calls boot_card().

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