linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MIPS: No need to check CPU 0 in cps_cpu

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Date:   Mon, 28 Dec 2020 22:40:35 +0100
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To:     Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>
Cc:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Wei Li <liwei391@...wei.com>,
        Xuefeng Li <lixuefeng@...ngson.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: No need to check CPU 0 in cps_cpu_disable()

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 01:07:26PM +0800, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> After commit 9cce844abf07 ("MIPS: CPU#0 is not hotpluggable"),
> c->hotpluggable is 0 for CPU 0 and it will not generate a control
> file in sysfs for this CPU:
> 
> [root@...ux loongson]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online
> cat: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online: No such file or directory
> [root@...ux loongson]# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online
> bash: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online: Permission denied
> 
> So no need to check CPU 0 in cps_cpu_disable(), just remove it.
> 
> Reported-by: liwei (GF) <liwei391@...wei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>
> ---
> 
> cps_cpu_disable() is not done in the early similar patch,
> sorry for that.
> 
>  arch/mips/kernel/smp-cps.c | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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