linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: skip cpu nodes marked as disabled in DT

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Date:   Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:18:02 +0100
From:   Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Rohit Khanna <rokhanna@...dia.com>
Cc:     "will.deacon@....com" <will.deacon@....com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>,
        Alexander Van Brunt <avanbrunt@...dia.com>,
        Bo Yan <byan@...dia.com>,
        Jason Sequeira <jsequeira@...dia.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: skip cpu nodes marked as disabled in DT

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 08:25:14AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:36:06PM +0000, Rohit Khanna wrote:
> > Adding few other folks.
> 
> It looks fine to me but cc'ing Mark and Lorenzo (and it should have been
> posted on linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org).
> 
> > From: Rohit Khanna
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 4:08 PM
> > To: catalin.marinas@....com; will.deacon@....com
> > Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; Rohit Khanna
> > Subject: [PATCH] arm64: skip cpu nodes marked as disabled in DT
> > 
> > Skip the CPU nodes that are marked as disabled in DT.
> > 
> > Bug 1828570

That's not information that can be used in its current form, which
bug-tracking system ?

> > Signed-off-by: Rohit Khanna <rokhanna@...dia.com>
> > Reviewed-on: http://git-master/r/1245333

If it is a public mailing list discussion the

Link:

tag and the lkml redirector should be used, I do not know what the
redirector used here is though.

Process is defined here:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html

> > Reviewed-by: Alexander Van Brunt <avanbrunt@...dia.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> > index f3e2e3aec0b0..2b4371b0948d 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> > @@ -578,6 +578,10 @@ static void __init of_parse_and_init_cpus(void)
> >         for_each_node_by_type(dn, "cpu") {
> >                 u64 hwid = of_get_cpu_mpidr(dn);
> > 
> > +               /* Check to see if the cpu is disabled */
> > +               if (!of_device_is_available(dn))
> > +                       goto next;
> > +

This was discussed a long time ago and kind of dropped - I digged the
thread out of archives for everyone's information:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-June/174324.html

Lorenzo