[PATCH v2 2/2] ARM64: kernel: unify ACPI and DT cpus initialization

[lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com (Lorenzo Pieralisi)]

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:00:58PM +0100, Al Stone wrote:
> On 05/13/2015 07:12 AM, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > The code that initializes cpus on arm64 is currently split in two
> > different code paths that carry out DT and ACPI cpus initialization.
> > 
> > Most of the code executing SMP initialization is common and should
> > be merged to reduce discrepancies between ACPI and DT initialization
> > and to have code initializing cpus in a single common place in the
> > kernel.
> > 
> > This patch refactors arm64 SMP cpus initialization code to merge
> > ACPI and DT boot paths in a common file and to create sanity
> > checks that can be reused by both boot methods.
> > 
> > Current code assumes PSCI is the only available boot method
> > when arm64 boots with ACPI; this can be easily extended if/when
> > the ACPI parking protocol is merged into the kernel.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
> > Acked-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
> > Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> > Tested-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
> > Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> [DT]
> > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> [snip...]
> 
> These patches look pretty good so far, but I've only just started
> reviewing them.  This one raised the question: do we know if there
> is someone already working on parking protocol?  I've seen a form
> of it working on AMD Seattles but I don't recall seeing any patches
> being submitted -- I'll search archives again, just in case I missed
> it the first time, but if there is someone working on it, that would
> be good to know.

FYI, I took M.Salter's initial patch for parking protocol and refactored it
for upstream on top of 4.2-rc2, I will drop it on the list asap.

Thanks,
Lorenzo