[1/4] powerpc/smp: Use cpu_to_chip_id() to find core siblings

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Fri Sep 1 23:29:47 AEST 2017


On Thu, 2017-06-29 at 07:12:53 UTC, Oliver O'Halloran wrote:
> When building the CPU scheduler topology the kernel uses the ibm,chipid
> property from the devicetree to group logical CPUs. Currently the DT
> search for this property is open-coded in smp.c and this functionality
> is a duplication of what's in cpu_to_chip_id() already. This patch
> removes the existing search in favor of that.
> 
> It's worth mentioning that the semantics of the search are different
> in cpu_to_chip_id(). When there is no ibm,chipid in the CPUs node it
> will also search /cpus and / for the property, but this should not
> effect the output topology.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall at gmail.com>

Series applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/e3d8b67e2c60dcd35661d34df249f2

cheers


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