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Currently we do a spin on secondary cpus when waiting to boot. This theoretically causes issues with power consumption and does cause issues with qemu cycle burning (it starves cpu 0 from actually being able to boot.) This change puts each secondary cpu to sleep if they have a power management unit, then signals them to wake via IPI when its time to boot. If the cpus have no power management unit they will loop as before. Note: The wakeup IPI requires a special interrupt handler as on secondary cpu's the interrupt infrastructure is not yet established. This interrupt handler is set and reset by updating SPR_EVBAR. Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.