From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
To: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>,
Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 03/11] drivers: base: add cpu_device_create to support per-cpu devices
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:23:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <541CACEC.90407@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409763617-17074-4-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com>
On 09/03/14 10:00, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
>
> This patch adds a new function to create per-cpu devices.
> This helps in:
> 1. reusing the device infrastructure to create any cpu related
> attributes and corresponding sysfs instead of creating and
> dealing with raw kobjects directly
> 2. retaining the legacy path(/sys/devices/system/cpu/..) to support
> existing sysfs ABI
> 3. avoiding to create links in the bus directory pointing to the
> device as there would be per-cpu instance of these devices with
> the same name since dev->bus is not populated to cpu_sysbus on
> purpose
>
> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
>
Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-19 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-03 17:00 [PATCH v4 00/11] drivers: cacheinfo support Sudeep Holla
2014-09-03 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 01/11] cpumask: factor out show_cpumap into separate helper function Sudeep Holla
2014-09-03 17:05 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2014-09-03 17:09 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-09-03 21:46 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-04 6:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-04 9:03 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-09-04 9:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-04 10:43 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-09-04 11:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-04 12:27 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-09-04 15:46 ` [PATCH v4 01/11 UPDATE] " Sudeep Holla
2014-09-19 22:23 ` Stephen Boyd
2014-09-24 8:51 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-09-24 10:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-03 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 02/11] topology: replace custom attribute macros with standard DEVICE_ATTR* Sudeep Holla
2014-09-03 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 03/11] drivers: base: add cpu_device_create to support per-cpu devices Sudeep Holla
2014-09-19 22:23 ` Stephen Boyd [this message]
2014-09-03 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 04/11] drivers: base: support cpu cache information interface to userspace via sysfs Sudeep Holla
2014-09-17 17:25 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-09-17 19:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-09-24 6:35 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-09-30 13:53 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-09-19 22:24 ` Stephen Boyd
2014-09-22 8:55 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-09-03 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 05/11] ia64: move cacheinfo sysfs to generic cacheinfo infrastructure Sudeep Holla
2014-09-03 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 06/11] s390: " Sudeep Holla
2014-09-03 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 07/11] x86: " Sudeep Holla
2014-09-03 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 08/11] powerpc: " Sudeep Holla
2014-09-03 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 09/11] ARM64: kernel: add support for cpu cache information Sudeep Holla
2014-09-10 16:41 ` Will Deacon
2014-09-10 17:21 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-09-03 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 10/11] ARM: " Sudeep Holla
2014-09-19 22:25 ` Stephen Boyd
2014-09-03 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 11/11] ARM: kernel: add outer cache support for cacheinfo implementation Sudeep Holla
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