[PATCH v3 1/7] ACPI/PPTT: Add Processor Properties Topology Table parsing

Jeremy Linton jeremy.linton at arm.com
Mon Oct 23 14:14:22 PDT 2017


Hi,

On 10/20/2017 02:53 PM, Christ, Austin wrote:
> Hey Jeremy,
> 
> Quick comment below.
> 
> On 10/12/2017 1:48 PM, Jeremy Linton wrote:
>> +static int topology_setup_acpi_cpu(struct acpi_table_header *table,
>> +                    unsigned int cpu, int level)
>> +{
>> +    struct acpi_pptt_processor *cpu_node;
>> +    u32 acpi_cpu_id = acpi_cpu_get_madt_gicc(cpu)->uid;
> 
> This lookup for the acpi id is architecture dependent. Can you use a 
> function that would work for any user of PPTT and MADT? It may require 
> writing and exporting the inverse lookup of the function 
> acpi_get_cpuid() which is exported from processor_core.c

Sure, I was actually thinking about just passing it into the function, 
so it becomes the responsibility of the caller to do the platform 
specific reverse lookup.

> 
>> +
>> +    cpu_node = acpi_find_processor_node(table, acpi_cpu_id);
>> +    if (cpu_node) {
>> +        cpu_node = acpi_find_processor_package_id(table, cpu_node, 
>> level);
>> +        /* Only the first level has a guaranteed id */
>> +        if (level == 0)
>> +            return cpu_node->acpi_processor_id;
>> +        return (int)((u8 *)cpu_node - (u8 *)table);
>> +    }
>> +    pr_err_once("PPTT table found, but unable to locate core for %d\n",
>> +            cpu);
>> +    return -ENOENT;
>> +}
> 




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