[RFC PATCH 00/11] ARM: DT: update cpu device of_node

Sudeep.KarkadaNagesha at arm.com Sudeep.KarkadaNagesha at arm.com
Mon Jul 15 06:22:01 EDT 2013


From: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha at arm.com>

As more and more information is getting added into the cpu node, the number
of drivers needing to parse the device tree for CPU nodes are increasing.
Most of the time, the information needed from the cpu node is preferred
in the logical CPU order. Hence many drivers first parse and search the
CPU node, match them to logical index if needed and then search for the
required property inside a particular cpu node. Some of them assume the
logical and physical CPU ordering to be same which is incorrect.

This patch series initialises the of_node in all the cpu devices when
registering the CPU device.
1. This avoids different drivers having to parse the cpu nodes to obtain
   different attributes like operating points, latency,...etc.
2. This handles different physical and logical cpu ordering which is not
   the case in current code.
3. Also all the cpu nodes will have their of_node initialised correctly.
   Currently different drivers assign them partially and incorrectly.
4. Removes all the reduntant parsing in various drivers.

Regards,
Sudeep

Sudeep KarkadaNagesha (11):
  driver/core: cpu: initialize of_node in cpu's device struture
  ARM: DT/kernel: define ARM specific arch_of_get_cpu_node
  ARM: topology: remove hwid(MPIDR dependency) from cpu_capacity
  ARM: mvebu: remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes
  drivers/bus: arm-cci: avoid parsing DT for cpu device nodes
  cpufreq: imx6q-cpufreq: remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes
  cpufreq: cpufreq-cpu0: remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes
  cpufreq: highbank-cpufreq: remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes
  cpufreq: spear-cpufreq: remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes
  cpufreq: kirkwood-cpufreq: remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes
  cpufreq: arm_big_little: remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes

 arch/arm/include/asm/prom.h         |  1 +
 arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c           | 29 ++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm/kernel/topology.c          | 61 ++++++++++++-------------------------
 arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-imx6q.c      |  3 +-
 arch/arm/mach-mvebu/platsmp.c       | 52 +++++++++++++++----------------
 drivers/base/cpu.c                  | 19 ++++++++++++
 drivers/bus/arm-cci.c               | 28 +++++------------
 drivers/cpufreq/arm_big_little_dt.c | 39 +++++++++++-------------
 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-cpu0.c      | 23 +++-----------
 drivers/cpufreq/highbank-cpufreq.c  | 18 ++++-------
 drivers/cpufreq/imx6q-cpufreq.c     |  4 +--
 drivers/cpufreq/kirkwood-cpufreq.c  | 14 +++++++--
 drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c     | 10 +++++-
 13 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 152 deletions(-)

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1.8.1.2





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