linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 11/13] arm64: topology: enable ACPI/PPTT based CPU topology

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Date:   Thu, 3 May 2018 16:15:13 +0100
From:   Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>
To:     Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>
Cc:     linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Sudeep.Holla@....com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 11/13] arm64: topology: enable ACPI/PPTT based CPU
 topology

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 06:31:19PM -0500, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> Propagate the topology information from the PPTT tree to the
> cpu_topology array. We can get the thread id and core_id by assuming
> certain levels of the PPTT tree correspond to those concepts.
> The package_id is flagged in the tree and can be found by calling
> find_acpi_cpu_topology_package() which terminates
> its search when it finds an ACPI node flagged as the physical
> package. If the tree doesn't contain enough levels to represent
> all of the requested levels then the root node will be returned
> for all subsequent levels.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>

Acked-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>