[RFT/RFC,v2,0/4] Unify CPU topology across ARM & RISC-V

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Atish Patra March 20, 2019, 1:22 a.m. UTC

The cpu-map DT entry in ARM can describe the CPU topology in much better
way compared to other existing approaches. RISC-V can easily adopt this
binding to represent its own CPU topology. Thus, both cpu-map DT
binding and topology parsing code can be moved to a common location so
that RISC-V or any other architecture can leverage that.

The relevant discussion regarding unifying cpu topology can be found in
[1].

arch_topology seems to be a perfect place to move the common code. I
have not introduced any significant functional changes in the moved code.
The only downside in this approach is that the capacity code will be
executed for RISC-V as well. But, it will exit immediately after not
able to find the appropriate DT node. If the overhead is considered too
much, we can always compile out capacity related functions under a
different config for the architectures that do not support them.

There was an opportunity to unify topology data structure for ARM32 done
by patch 3/4. But, I refrained from making any other changes as I am not
very well versed with original intention for some of the functions that
are present in arch_topology.c. I hope this patch series can be served
as a baseline for such changes in the future.

The patches have been tested for RISC-V and compile tested for ARM64,
ARM32 & x86.

The socket change[2] is also now part of this series.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/11/6/19
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/11/7/918

QEMU changes for RISC-V topology are available at

https://github.com/atishp04/qemu/tree/riscv_topology_dt

Changes from v1->v2
1. ARM32 can now use the common code as well.

Atish Patra (4):
dt-binding: cpu-topology: Move cpu-map to a common binding.
cpu-topology: Move cpu topology code to common code.
arm: Use common cpu_topology
RISC-V: Parse cpu topology during boot.

.../topology.txt => cpu/cpu-topology.txt}     |  82 ++++-
arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h               |  22 +-
arch/arm/kernel/topology.c                    |  10 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/topology.h             |  23 --
arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c                  | 303 +-----------------
arch/riscv/Kconfig                            |   1 +
arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c                   |   3 +
drivers/base/arch_topology.c                  | 298 ++++++++++++++++-
drivers/base/topology.c                       |   1 +
include/linux/arch_topology.h                 |  36 +++
10 files changed, 414 insertions(+), 365 deletions(-)
rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{arm/topology.txt => cpu/cpu-topology.txt} (86%)

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