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    arm64: factor out spin-table boot method · 652af899
    Mark Rutland authored
    The arm64 kernel has an internal holding pen, which is necessary for
    some systems where we can't bring CPUs online individually and must hold
    multiple CPUs in a safe area until the kernel is able to handle them.
    The current SMP infrastructure for arm64 is closely coupled to this
    holding pen, and alternative boot methods must launch CPUs into the pen,
    where they sit before they are launched into the kernel proper.
    
    With PSCI (and possibly other future boot methods), we can bring CPUs
    online individually, and need not perform the secondary_holding_pen
    dance. Instead, this patch factors the holding pen management code out
    to the spin-table boot method code, as it is the only boot method
    requiring the pen.
    
    A new entry point for secondaries, secondary_entry is added for other
    boot methods to use, which bypasses the holding pen and its associated
    overhead when bringing CPUs online. The smp.pen.text section is also
    removed, as the pen can live in head.text without problem.
    
    The cpu_operations structure is extended with two new functions,
    cpu_boot and cpu_postboot, for bringing a cpu into the kernel and
    performing any post-boot cleanup required by a bootmethod (e.g.
    resetting the secondary_holding_pen_release to INVALID_HWID).
    Documentation is added for cpu_operations.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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