[PATCH RFC 07/22] drivers: base: Allow parts of GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES to be overridden
Jonathan Cameron
Jonathan.Cameron at Huawei.com
Tue Nov 28 06:49:21 PST 2023
On Tue, 07 Nov 2023 10:29:54 +0000
Russell King <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> From: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
>
> Architectures often have extra per-cpu work that needs doing
> before a CPU is registered, often to determine if a CPU is
> hotpluggable.
>
> To allow the ACPI architectures to use GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES, move
> the cpu_register() call into arch_register_cpu(), which is made __weak
> so architectures with extra work can override it.
> This aligns with the way x86, ia64 and loongarch register hotplug CPUs
> when they become present.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron at huawei.com>
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