Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] ACPI/PPTT: Add support for ACPI 6.3 thread flag

[John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>]

On 21/08/2019 14:20, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 8/20/19 4:01 AM, John Garry wrote:
>> On 12/08/2019 12:59, Will Deacon wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 11:06:07AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 12:25 AM Robert Richter
>>>> <rrichter@marvell.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 08.08.19 15:40:06, Jeremy Linton wrote:
>>>>>> ACPI 6.3 adds a flag to the CPU node to indicate whether
>>>>>> the given PE is a thread. Add a function to return that
>>>>>> information for a given linux logical CPU.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>  drivers/acpi/pptt.c  | 53
>>>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>>>>>  include/linux/acpi.h |  5 +++++
>>>>>>  2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@marvell.com>
>>>>
>>>> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>>>>
>>>> and please push it through ARM64 along with the second patch.
>>>
>>> Thanks. I'll push these into -next shortly.
>>
>>
>> Hi Jeremy,
>>
>> We're considering requesting this support is backported to stable. We
>> have a platform which incorrectly sets the MT bit. To update our
>> firmware to PPTT v2, we need the kernel to support PPTT v2 also.
>>
>> Please let me know if you anticipate an issue in this.
>
> No I don't see any issues with that once it lands.
>
> I believe the ball is rolling in the case of some older distro kernel's
> as well.

Cool.

Cheers,
John

>
> Thanks,
>
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