linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 38/39] cpumask: Add enabled cpumask for present CPUs that can be brought online

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Message-ID: <ZTfjmM3nmeh+D5w/@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:32:40 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, loongarch@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
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        linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org, Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@...wei.com>,
        Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.org>,
        jianyong.wu@....com, justin.he@....com,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 38/39] cpumask: Add enabled cpumask for present CPUs that
 can be brought online

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 04:19:24PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> From: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
> 
> The 'offline' file in sysfs shows all offline CPUs, including those
> that aren't present. User-space is expected to remove not-present CPUs
> from this list to learn which CPUs could be brought online.
> 
> CPUs can be present but not-enabled. These CPUs can't be brought online
> until the firmware policy changes, which comes with an ACPI notification
> that will register the CPUs.
> 
> With only the offline and present files, user-space is unable to
> determine which CPUs it can try to bring online. Add a new CPU mask
> that shows this based on all the registered CPUs.

...

> +static ssize_t print_cpus_enabled(struct device *dev,
> +				  struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> +{
> +	return sysfs_emit(buf, "%*pbl\n", cpumask_pr_args(cpu_enabled_mask));
> +}
> +static DEVICE_ATTR(enabled, 0444, print_cpus_enabled, NULL);

Hmm... DEVICE_ATTR_RO() ?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko