[PATCH RFC v3 13/21] ACPICA: Add new MADT GICC flags fields

[Lorenzo Pieralisi]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 04:53:28PM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 04:23:22PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 12:50:18 +0000
> > Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> > > 
> > > Add the new flag field to the MADT's GICC structure.
> > > 
> > > 'Online Capable' indicates a disabled CPU can be enabled later. See
> > > ACPI specification 6.5 Tabel 5.37: GICC CPU Interface Flags.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> > > Tested-by: Miguel Luis <miguel.luis at oracle.com>
> > > Tested-by: Vishnu Pajjuri <vishnu at os.amperecomputing.com>
> > > Tested-by: Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu at arm.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
> > 
> > I see there is an acpica pull request including this bit but with a different name
> > For reference.
> > https://github.com/acpica/acpica/pull/914/commits/453a5f67567786522021d5f6913f561f8b3cabf6
> > 
> > +CC Lorenzo who submitted that.
> 
> > > +#define ACPI_MADT_GICC_CPU_CAPABLE      (1<<3)	/* 03: CPU is online capable */
> > 
> > ACPI_MADT_GICC_ONLINE_CAPABLE
> 
> It's somewhat disappointing, but no big deal. It's easy enough to change
> "irqchip/gic-v3: Add support for ACPI's disabled but 'online capable' CPUs"
> to use Lorenzo's name when that patch hits - and it becomes one less
> patch in this patch set when Lorenzo's change eventually hits mainline.
> 
> Does anyone know how long it may take for Lorenzo's change to get into
> mainline? Would it be by the 6.8 merge window or the following one?

I wish I knew. I submitted ACPICA changes for the online capable bit
since I had to add additional flags on top (ie DMA coherent) and it
would not make sense to submit the latter without the former.

I'd be great if the ACPICA headers can make it into Linux for the upcoming
merge window, not sure what I can do to fasttrack the process though
(I shall ping the maintainers).

Lorenzo

> Thanks.
> 
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