On 2018-08-06 09:15:32 [+0100], Marc Zyngier wrote: > Hi Sebastian, Hi Marc,
> I must say I'm not overly keen on the extra hotplug notifier, and I'd > rather allocate all the memory upfront on the boot CPU. > > I've implemented this as part of a series that is required for > kexec/kdump support[1] (and specifically this[2] patch). Could you > please have a look and let me know if that works for you? I otherwise > plan to post it for review once the 4.19 merge window has closed. This looks good, thank you. I can't test this because I don't have a GICv3 box atm. The last one I had died somehow. I pull that patch into my next RT release and ask for some feedback. One question: You have its_allocate_pending_table(GFP_NOWAIT); for the allocation. Shouldn't GFP_KERNEL do the job, too? > Thanks, > > M. Sebastian