linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 10/17] ARM64 / ACPI: Parse MADT for SMP initialization

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Message-ID: <54B80B62.6020000@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2015 12:48:02 -0600
From:	Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo@...hat.com>
To:	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
CC:	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>,
	Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
	Sudeep Holla <Sudeep.Holla@....com>,
	Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Charles.Garcia-Tobin@....com, phoenix.liyi@...wei.com,
	Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>,
	suravee.suthikulpanit@....com, wangyijing@...wei.com,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org,
	Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 10/17] ARM64 / ACPI: Parse MADT for SMP initialization

On 01/14/2015 09:04 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> MADT contains the information for MPIDR which is essential for
> SMP initialization, parse the GIC cpu interface structures to
> get the MPIDR value and map it to cpu_logical_map(), and add
> enabled cpu with valid MPIDR into cpu_possible_map.
>
> ACPI 5.1 only has two explicit methods to boot up SMP, PSCI and
> Parking protocol, but the Parking protocol is only specified for
> ARMv7 now, so make PSCI as the only way for the SMP boot protocol
> before some updates for the ACPI spec or the Parking protocol spec.
>
> Parking protocol patches for SMP boot will be sent to upstream when
> the new version of Parking protocol is ready.
>
> Tested-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com>
> Tested-by: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@...wei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>
> ---
Tested-by: Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo@...hat.com>
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