From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from service87.mimecast.com (service87.mimecast.com [91.220.42.44]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0FF82C00C1 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 23:29:17 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <52161245.3080404@arm.com> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:29:41 +0100 From: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 03/19] powerpc: refactor of_get_cpu_node to support other architectures References: <1374492747-13879-1-git-send-email-Sudeep.KarkadaNagesha@arm.com> <1376991021-12160-1-git-send-email-Sudeep.KarkadaNagesha@arm.com> <1376991021-12160-4-git-send-email-Sudeep.KarkadaNagesha@arm.com> <1377152143.25016.289.camel@pasglop> In-Reply-To: <1377152143.25016.289.camel@pasglop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Jonas Bonn , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Michal Simek , "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" , Sudeep KarkadaNagesha , Viresh Kumar , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "rob.herring@calxeda.com" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "grant.likely@linaro.org" , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 22/08/13 07:15, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 10:30 +0100, Sudeep KarkadaNagesha wrote: >> From: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha >> >> Currently different drivers requiring to access cpu device node are >> parsing the device tree themselves. Since the ordering in the DT need >> not match the logical cpu ordering, the parsing logic needs to consider >> that. However, this has resulted in lots of code duplication and in some >> cases even incorrect logic. >> >> It's better to consolidate them by adding support for getting cpu >> device node for a given logical cpu index in DT core library. However >> logical to physical index mapping can be architecture specific. >> >> PowerPC has it's own implementation to get the cpu node for a given >> logical index. >> >> This patch refactors the current implementation of of_get_cpu_node. >> This in preparation to move the implementation to DT core library. >> It separates out the logical to physical mapping so that a default >> matching of the physical id to the logical cpu index can be added >> when moved to common code. Architecture specific code can override it. >=20 > So the patch unfortunately collides with other changes in powerpc -next, > though it's not a huge deal and not hard to fixup, but expect Linus > to tick unless we sort it out some other way. >=20 > Appart from that, it's fine, builds on all my test configs and doesn't > seem to negatively impact things as far as I can tell so far... >=20 > Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt >=20 Hi Ben, Thanks a lot for testing and ACK. I will check with Rafael about these (trivial) conflicts. Regards, Sudeep