[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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