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ARM: topology: Make it clear that all CPUs need to be described

Message ID 1395320374-29576-1-git-send-email-broonie@kernel.org
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Mark Brown March 20, 2014, 12:59 p.m. UTC 
From: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>

The ARMv8 code will reject topologies that omit some CPUs (and it's not
clear that it's ever sensible to do so). Update the binding document to
make this clear.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
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 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/topology.txt | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Mark Brown March 21, 2014, 1:39 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 01:32:02PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:59:34PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > -Any other configuration is consider invalid and therefore must be ignored.
> > +The nodes describing the CPU topology (cluster/core/thread) can only
> > +be defined within the cpu-map node and every core/thread in the system
> > +must be defined within the topology.  Any other configuration is
> > +consider invalid and therefore must be ignored.

> s/consider/considered/ (or drop the word entirely?).

Yup (that's a preexisting thing in the text that got reflowed).
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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/topology.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/topology.txt
index 4aa20e7a424e..1bd5edc225c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/topology.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/topology.txt
@@ -75,9 +75,10 @@  The cpu-map node can only contain three types of child nodes:
 
 whose bindings are described in paragraph 3.
 
-The nodes describing the CPU topology (cluster/core/thread) can only be
-defined within the cpu-map node.
-Any other configuration is consider invalid and therefore must be ignored.
+The nodes describing the CPU topology (cluster/core/thread) can only
+be defined within the cpu-map node and every core/thread in the system
+must be defined within the topology.  Any other configuration is
+consider invalid and therefore must be ignored.
 
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 2.1 - cpu-map child nodes naming convention