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

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Date:   Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:13:16 +1000
From:   Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>
To:     "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.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>
Cc:     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"

On Wed, 2018-08-29 at 17:04 +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> > +What: 		/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-9]+/small_core_siblings
> 
> Shouldn't we put this in the topology/ subdir with with the other items like
> it?

Also, please follow the same format as *_sibilings files topology/ where they
are just a mask (this patch currently has it as a comma separated list).

Mikey