[PATCH 06/21] drivers: base: Use present CPUs in GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES

Russell King
2023-11-21T13:44:36Z

From: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>

Three of the five ACPI architectures create sysfs entries using
register_cpu() for present CPUs, whereas arm64, riscv and all
GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES do this for possible CPUs.

Registering a CPU is what causes them to show up in sysfs.

It makes very little sense to register all possible CPUs. Registering
a CPU is what triggers the udev notifications allowing user-space to
react to newly added CPUs.

To allow all five ACPI architectures to use GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES, change
it to use for_each_present_cpu().

Making the ACPI architectures use GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES is a pre-requisite
step to centralise their register_cpu() logic, before moving it into the
ACPI processor driver. When we add support for register CPUs from ACPI
in a later patch, we will avoid registering CPUs in this path.

Of the ACPI architectures that register possible CPUs, arm64 and riscv
do not support making possible CPUs present as they use the weak 'always
fails' version of arch_register_cpu().

Only two of the eight architectures that use GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES have a
distinction between present and possible CPUs.

The following architectures use GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES but are not SMP,
so possible == present:
* m68k
* microblaze
* nios2

The following architectures use GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES and consider
possible == present:
* csky: setup_smp()
* processor_probe() sets possible for all CPUs and present for all CPUs
except the boot cpu, which will have been done by
init/main.c::start_kernel().

um appears to be a subarchitecture of x86.

The remaining architecture using GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES are:
* openrisc and hexagon:
where smp_init_cpus() makes all CPUs < NR_CPUS possible,
whereas smp_prepare_cpus() only makes CPUs < setup_max_cpus present.

After this change, openrisc and hexagon systems that use the max_cpus
command line argument would not see the other CPUs present in sysfs.
This should not be a problem as these CPUs can't be brought online as
_cpu_up() checks cpu_present().

After this change, only CPUs which are present appear in sysfs.

Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
---
drivers/base/cpu.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c
index 9ea22e165acd..34b48f660b6b 100644
--- a/drivers/base/cpu.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ static void __init cpu_dev_register_generic(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES
int i;

- for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
+ for_each_present_cpu(i) {
if (register_cpu(&per_cpu(cpu_devices, i), i))
panic("Failed to register CPU device");
}
--
2.30.2