Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: sdm845: Add CPU topology

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Tue May 14 2019 - 17:17:53 EST


Quoting Amit Kucheria (2019-05-13 04:54:12)
> On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 4:31 PM Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 12:13 AM Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > The 8 CPU cores of the SDM845 are organized in two clusters of 4 big
> > > ("gold") and 4 little ("silver") cores. Add a cpu-map node to the DT
> > > that describes this topology.
> >
> > This is partly true. There are two groups of gold and silver cores,
> > but AFAICT they are in a single cluster, not two separate ones. SDM845
> > is one of the early examples of ARM's Dynamiq architecture.
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I noticed that this patch sneaked through for this merge window but
> > perhaps we can whip up a quick fix for -rc2?
> >
>
> And please find attached a patch to fix this up. Andy, since this
> hasn't landed yet (can we still squash this into the original patch?),
> I couldn't add a Fixes tag.
>

I had the same concern. Thanks for catching this. I suspect this must
cause some problem for IPA given that it can't discern between the big
and little "power clusters"?

Either way,

Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>