[PATCH] ARM: topology: Make it clear that all CPUs need to be described
Mark Brown
broonie at kernel.org
Thu Mar 20 08:59:34 EDT 2014
From: Mark Brown <broonie at linaro.org>
The ARMv8 code will reject topologies that omit some CPUs (and it's not
clear that it's ever sensible to do so). Update the binding document to
make this clear.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at linaro.org>
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/topology.txt | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/topology.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/topology.txt
index 4aa20e7a424e..1bd5edc225c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/topology.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/topology.txt
@@ -75,9 +75,10 @@ The cpu-map node can only contain three types of child nodes:
whose bindings are described in paragraph 3.
-The nodes describing the CPU topology (cluster/core/thread) can only be
-defined within the cpu-map node.
-Any other configuration is consider invalid and therefore must be ignored.
+The nodes describing the CPU topology (cluster/core/thread) can only
+be defined within the cpu-map node and every core/thread in the system
+must be defined within the topology. Any other configuration is
+consider invalid and therefore must be ignored.
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2.1 - cpu-map child nodes naming convention
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1.9.1
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