linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] powerpc: Detect the presence of big-cores via "ibm,thread-groups"

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Message-Id: <20180820175918.GA23117@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:59:18 -0700
From:   Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
        Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Akshay Adiga <akshay.adiga@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@...il.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <muriloo@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] powerpc: Detect the presence of big-cores via
 "ibm,thread-groups"

* Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> [2018-08-20 11:11:43]:

> From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> On IBM POWER9, the device tree exposes a property array identifed by
one small nit:
s/identifed/identified/g

> "ibm,thread-groups" which will indicate which groups of threads share
> a particular set of resources.
> 
> As of today we only have one form of grouping identifying the group of
> threads in the core that share the L1 cache, translation cache and
> instruction data flow.
> 
> This patch defines the helper function to parse the contents of
> "ibm,thread-groups" and a new structure to contain the parsed output.
> 
> The patch also creates the sysfs file named "small_core_siblings" that
> returns the physical ids of the threads in the core that share the L1
> cache, translation cache and instruction data flow.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Otherwise looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>