Re: [PATCH 12/21] arm64: setup: Switch over to GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES using arch_register_cpu()

On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:44:51 +0000
Russell King <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: James Morse <[email protected]>
> 
> 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 <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <[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]>