Re: [PATCH v6 01/17] ACPI / processor: Convert apic_id to phys_id to make it arch agnostic

[Hanjun Guo]

On 2015å01æ07æ 09:50, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sunday, January 04, 2015 06:55:02 PM Hanjun Guo wrote:
> > From: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > apic_id in MADT table is the CPU hardware id which identify
> > it self in the system for x86 and ia64, OSPM will use it for
> > SMP init to map APIC ID to logical cpu number in the early
> > boot, when the DSDT/SSDT (ACPI namespace) is scanned later, the
> > ACPI processor driver is probed and the driver will use acpi_id
> > in DSDT to get the apic_id, then map to the logical cpu number
> > which is needed by the processor driver.
> >
> > Before ACPI 5.0, only x86 and ia64 were supported in ACPI spec,
> > so apic_id is used both in arch code and ACPI core which is
> > pretty fine. Since ACPI 5.0, ARM is supported by ACPI and
> > APIC is not available on ARM, this will confuse people when
> > apic_id is both used by x86 and ARM in one function.
> >
> > So convert apic_id to phys_id (which is the original meaning)
> > in ACPI processor dirver to make it arch agnostic, but leave the
> > arch dependent code unchanged, no functional change.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I've queued up this one and [2/17] for 3.19-rc4 as I promised I'd push these
> two for 3.19.

Great, thanks a lot. I thought you will queued them for 3.20 :)

Regards
Hanjun
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