Re: [PATCH 07/21] drivers: base: Allow parts of GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES to be overridden

Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:50:11 +0000
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Organization Huawei Technologies Research and Development (UK) Ltd.
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:44:25 +0000
Russell King <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: James Morse <[email protected]>
> 
> Architectures often have extra per-cpu work that needs doing
> before a CPU is registered, often to determine if a CPU is
> hotpluggable.
> 
> To allow the ACPI architectures to use GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES, move
> the cpu_register() call into arch_register_cpu(), which is made __weak
> so architectures with extra work can override it.
> This aligns with the way x86, ia64 and loongarch register hotplug CPUs
> when they become present.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Shaoqin Huang <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>