linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 14/21] ACPI / processor: Make it possible to get CPU hardware ID via GICC

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Date:	Thu, 5 Mar 2015 11:27:08 +0000
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@...wei.com>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ashwin Chaugule <ashwinc@...eaurora.org>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>,
	Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
	Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>,
	linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	suravee.suthikulpanit@....com, Sudeep Holla <Sudeep.Holla@....com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 14/21] ACPI / processor: Make it possible to get CPU
 hardware ID via GICC

On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 04:03:21PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> On 2015/3/5 6:46, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > IMO, you really need to define phys_cpuid_t in a common place or people will
> > forget that it may be 64-bit, because they'll only be looking at their arch.
> 
> Since x86 and ARM64 are using different types for phys_cpuid_t, we need to
> introduce something like following if define it in common place:
> 
> in linux/acpi.h,
> 
> #if defined(CONFIG_X86) || defined(CONFIG_IA64)
> typedef u32 phys_cpuid_t;
> #define PHYS_CPUID_INVALID (phys_cpuid_t)(-1)
> #else if defined(CONFIG_ARM64)
> typedef u64 phys_cpuid_t;
> #define PHYS_CPUID_INVALID INVALID_HWID
> #endif
> 
> I think it's awful, did I miss something?

I also think that's awful. I'm rather in favour of a per-arch
phys_cpuid_t.

-- 
Catalin
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