Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm: introduce IRQ stacks

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Wed Nov 11 2020 - 01:56:47 EST


* Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> [201110 13:35]:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 1:06 PM Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Are these actually ARMv6? Most ARM11 cores you'd come across
> > > in practice are ARMv6K (ARM1136r1, ARM1167, ARM11MPCore),
> > > in particular every SoC that has any mainline support except for
> > > the ARM1136r0 based OMAP2 and i.MX3.
> >
> > I've been only using smp_on_up for the ARMv6 ARM1136r0 variants
> > for omap2, no SMP on those.
>
> Obviously all SMP hardware is ARMv6K, the only question I raised
> in point "c)" is what we would lose by making ARMv6 (ARM1136r0)
> support and SMP mutually exclusive in a kernel configuration, and
> I suppose the answer remains "testing".

Agreed that is probably the biggest reason to keep it at this point.

Regards,

Tony