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From: Sumit Gupta <sumitg@nvidia.com>
To: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>,
	Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Mikko Perttunen <mperttunen@nvidia.com>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List"
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Sumit Gupta <sumitg@nvidia.com>, Bibek Basu <bbasu@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] arm64: Export __cpu_logical_map
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 17:16:27 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00cf6e67-16ed-872d-2c16-0ceea6b6f514@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200724131059.GB6521@bogus>

>>> ERROR: modpost: "__cpu_logical_map" [drivers/cpufreq/tegra194-cpufreq.ko] undefined!
>>>
>>> ARM64 tegra194-cpufreq driver use cpu_logical_map, export
>>> __cpu_logical_map to fix build issue.
>>>
> 
> I wonder why like other instances in the drivers, the mpidr is not get
> directly from the cpu. The cpufreq_driver->init call happens when the cpu
> is being brought online and is executed on the required cpu IIUC.
> 
Yes, this occurs during hotplug case.
But in the case of system boot, 'cpufreq_driver->init' is called later 
during cpufreq platform driver's probe. The value of CPU in 
'policy->cpu' can be different from the current CPU. That's why 
read_cpuid_mpidr() can't be used.

> read_cpuid_mpidr() is inline and avoids having to export the logical_cpu_map.
> Though we may not add physical hotplug anytime soon, less dependency
> on this cpu_logical_map is better given that we can resolve this without
> the need to access the map.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Sudeep
> 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-26 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20200724030433.22287-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
2020-07-24  3:08 ` [PATCH -next] arm64: Export __cpu_logical_map Kefeng Wang
2020-07-24  8:16   ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-07-24  9:13     ` Mark Rutland
2020-07-24  9:35       ` Catalin Marinas
2020-07-24 10:33         ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-07-24  9:16     ` Kefeng Wang
2020-07-24  9:30     ` Catalin Marinas
2020-07-24 10:36       ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-07-24  9:43   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-24 13:10   ` Sudeep Holla
2020-07-25  2:00     ` Kefeng Wang
2020-07-26 11:46     ` Sumit Gupta [this message]
2020-07-27 16:05       ` Sudeep Holla
2020-08-01 12:16         ` Sumit Gupta
2020-08-10  7:49           ` Sudeep Holla
2020-08-10 10:19             ` Catalin Marinas
2020-08-10 12:11               ` Sudeep Holla
2020-08-11 19:44               ` Sumit Gupta

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