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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 13/22] arm64: setup: Switch over to GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES using arch_register_cpu()
From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron () Huawei ! com>
Date: 2023-11-28 15:12:00
Message-ID: 20231128151200.0000737c () Huawei ! com
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 15:08:54 +0000
Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Nov 2023 10:30:25 +0000
> Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > From: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> >
> > To allow ACPI's _STA value to hide CPUs that are present, but not
> > available to online right now due to VMM or firmware policy, the
> > register_cpu() call needs to be made by the ACPI machinery when ACPI
> > is in use. This allows it to hide CPUs that are unavailable from sysfs.
> >
> > Switching to GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES is an intermediate step to allow all
> > five ACPI architectures to be modified at once.
> >
> > Switch over to GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES, and provide an arch_register_cpu()
> > that populates the hotpluggable flag. arch_register_cpu() is also the
> > interface the ACPI machinery expects.
> >
> > The struct cpu in struct cpuinfo_arm64 is never used directly, remove
> > it to use the one GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES provides.
> >
> > This changes the CPUs visible in sysfs from possible to present, but
> > on arm64 smp_prepare_cpus() ensures these are the same.
> >
> > This patch also has the effect of moving the registration of CPUs from
> > subsys to driver core initialisation, prior to any initcalls running.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
> > Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
>
> Given this series adds an arch_cpu_is_hotpluggable() callback we probably
> want something in this patch description to say why this
> isn't using that, but instead overriding arch_register_cpu()
>
As per comment on next patch I'm fine with this slight dance.
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
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