metag: smp: don't spin waiting for CPU to start

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Use a completion to block until a secondary CPU has started up, like ARM
do, instead of a loop of udelays.

On Meta, SMP is really SMT, with each "CPU" being a different hardware
thread on the same Meta processor core, so as well as being more
efficient and latency friendly, using a completion prevents the bogomips
of the secondary CPU from being drastically skewed every time by the
execution of the tight in-cache udelay loop on the other CPU.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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James Hogan 2013-06-28 15:03:05 +01:00

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