linux-kernel - [RFC] follow-on patches to acpi processor and cpufreq harvester^H^H^Hpassthru (v4).

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Date:	Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:07:45 -0500
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	pasik@....fi
Cc:	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, JBeulich@...ell.com,
	kevin.tian@...el.com, ke.yu@...el.com
Subject: [RFC] follow-on patches to acpi processor and cpufreq harvester^H^H^Hpassthru (v4).

I decided that passthru sounded much better so:
 [PATCH 1/3] xen/processor-passthru: Change the name to passthru

does the move to the new name, and then the next one implements the dom0_max_vcpu
support:
 [PATCH 2/3] xen/processor-passthru: Support vCPU != pCPU - aka

by enumerating the ACPI processor values directly and re-using the 'struct acpi_processor'
for the rest (the ones not enumerated by ACPI layer). I chatted with the Intel folks and
they said that it is safe to assume that the _PXX and _CXX values are the same across
all the CPUs. Not entirely sure about AMD so I need to chat with them.

The last one is just an fixup to make it easier to read:
 [PATCH 3/3] xen/processor-passthru: Remove the print_hex_dump - as

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