[PATCH v12 1/4] cpu/SMT: Provide a default topology_is_primary_thread()

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Wed Mar 12 01:41:39 AEDT 2025


On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 03:51:40PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote:
> From: Yicong Yang <yangyicong at hisilicon.com>
> 
> Currently if architectures want to support HOTPLUG_SMT they need to
> provide a topology_is_primary_thread() telling the framework which
> thread in the SMT cannot offline. However arm64 doesn't have a
> restriction on which thread in the SMT cannot offline, a simplest
> choice is that just make 1st thread as the "primary" thread. So
> just make this as the default implementation in the framework and
> let architectures like x86 that have special primary thread to
> override this function (which they've already done).
> 
> There's no need to provide a stub function if !CONFIG_SMP or
> !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_SMT. In such case the testing CPU is already
> the 1st CPU in the SMT so it's always the primary thread.
>

LGTM:

Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>

> +	 * enabled/active. Architectures do have a special primary thread

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^^ s/do/that/ or s/do/that do/

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Regards,
Sudeep


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