From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hanjun.guo@linaro.org (Hanjun Guo) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 21:37:23 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] ARM64 / SMP: Switch pr_err() to pr_debug() for disabled GICC entry Message-ID: <1435757843-13236-1-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org It is normal that firmware presents GICC entry or entries (processors) with disabled flag in ACPI MADT, taking a system of 16 cpus for example, ACPI firmware may present 8 enabled first with another 8 cpus disabled in MADT, the disabled cpus can be hot-added later. Firmware may also present more cpus than the hardware actually has, but disabled the unused ones, and easily enable it when the hardware has such cpus to make the firmware code scalable. So that's not an error for disabled cpus in MADT, we can switch pr_err() to pr_debug() instead. Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo --- arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c index 4b2121b..5caf04a 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ acpi_map_gic_cpu_interface(struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt *processor) } if (!(processor->flags & ACPI_MADT_ENABLED)) { - pr_err("skipping disabled CPU entry with 0x%llx MPIDR\n", hwid); + pr_debug("skipping disabled CPU entry with 0x%llx MPIDR\n", hwid); return; } -- 1.9.1