Re: [PATCH 07/21] drivers: base: Allow parts of GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES to be overridden

Jonathan Cameron
2023-11-30T16:50:14Z

On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:44:25 +0000
Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:

> From: James Morse <james.morse@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@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Shaoqin Huang <shahuang@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>