[PATCH v3 part1 07/11] ARM64 / ACPI: Introduce arch_fix_phys_package_id() for cpu topology

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Mon Apr 28 01:50:29 PDT 2014


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:00:01AM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:

> Since platform software (firmware) knows the topology of the system, if
> ACPI describes a slot number for this CPU, I think we can use it
> unconditionally.

Right, the only concern with that is upsetting the scheduler but since
x86 does the same thing presumably this is safe.
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