Commit 38d16667 authored by Mark Brown's avatar Mark Brown Committed by Will Deacon

arm64: Clarify when cpu_enable() is called

Strengthen the wording in the documentation for cpu_enable() to make it
more obvious to readers not already familiar with the code when the core
will call this callback and that this is intentional.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSuzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
[will: minor tweak to emphasis in the comment]
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
parent 37143dcc
......@@ -289,9 +289,16 @@ struct arm64_cpu_capabilities {
u16 type;
bool (*matches)(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *caps, int scope);
/*
* Take the appropriate actions to enable this capability for this CPU.
* For each successfully booted CPU, this method is called for each
* globally detected capability.
* Take the appropriate actions to configure this capability
* for this CPU. If the capability is detected by the kernel
* this will be called on all the CPUs in the system,
* including the hotplugged CPUs, regardless of whether the
* capability is available on that specific CPU. This is
* useful for some capabilities (e.g, working around CPU
* errata), where all the CPUs must take some action (e.g,
* changing system control/configuration). Thus, if an action
* is required only if the CPU has the capability, then the
* routine must check it before taking any action.
*/
void (*cpu_enable)(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *cap);
union {
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