[RFC PATCH v3 00/39] ACPI/arm64: add support for virtual cpuhotplug

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 04:15:28PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm posting James' patch set updated with most of the review comments
> from his RFC v2 series back in September. Individual patches have a
> changelog attached at the bottom of the commit message. Those which
> I have finished updating have my S-o-b on them, those which still have
> outstanding review comments from RFC v2 do not. In some of these cases
> I've asked questions and am waiting for responses.
> 
> I'm posting this as RFC v3 because there's still some unaddressed
> comments and it's clearly not ready for merging. Even if it was ready
> to be merged, it is too late in this development cycle to be taking
> this change in, so there would be little point posting it non-RFC.
> Also James stated that he's waiting for confirmation from the
> Kubernetes/Kata folk - I have no idea what the status is there.
> 
> I will be sending each patch individually to a wider audience
> appropriate for that patch - apologies to those missing out on this
> cover message. I have added more mailing lists to the series with the
> exception of the acpica list in a hope of this cover message also
> reaching those folk.
> 
> The changes that aren't included are:
> 
> 1. Updates for my patch that was merged via Thomas (thanks!):
>    c4dd854f740c cpu-hotplug: Provide prototypes for arch CPU registration
>    rather than having this change spread through James' patches.
> 
> 2. New patch - simplification of PA-RISC's smp_prepare_boot_cpu()
> 
> 3. Moved "ACPI: Use the acpi_device_is_present() helper in more places"
>    and "ACPI: Rename acpi_scan_device_not_present() to be about
>    enumeration" to the beginning of the series - these two patches are
>    already queued up for merging into 6.7.
> 
> 4. Moved "arm64, irqchip/gic-v3, ACPI: Move MADT GICC enabled check into
>    a helper" to the beginning of the series, which has been submitted,
>    but as yet the fate of that posting isn't known.

Update: Catalin has just merged this patch! Thanks.

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