linux-kernel - Re: [RFC part1 PATCH 2/7] ARM64 : Add dummy asm/cpu.h

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Message-ID: <20131203171345.GC16025@e106331-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:	Tue, 3 Dec 2013 17:13:45 +0000
From:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"grant.likely@...aro.org" <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	"rob.herring@...xeda.com" <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
	"patches@...aro.org" <patches@...aro.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	"linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC part1 PATCH 2/7] ARM64 : Add dummy asm/cpu.h

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 04:36:46PM +0000, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> ACPI requires a cpu.h, add a dummy one copied from arm. This will need
> updated or replaced as ACPI based cpu hotplug for armv8 is worked out.

What exactly requires cpu.h, and why?

Why copy the file verbatim rather than factoring it out?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/cpu.h |   25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/cpu.h
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpu.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpu.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..dbeb98d
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpu.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
> +/*
> + *  Copyright (C) 2004-2005 ARM Ltd.
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
> + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> + */
> +#ifndef __ASM_ARM_CPU_H
> +#define __ASM_ARM_CPU_H
> +
> +#include <linux/percpu.h>
> +#include <linux/cpu.h>
> +#include <linux/topology.h>
> +
> +struct cpuinfo_arm {
> +	struct cpu	cpu;
> +	u32		cpuid;

We use a u64 elsewhere for the mpidr_el1 in arm64.

Thanks,
Mark.
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