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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v2 06/35] arm64: setup: Switch over to GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES using arch_register_cpu()
On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 04:37:54PM +0000, James Morse wrote:
> 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>

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