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From:   Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org>
Date:   Fri, 6 Nov 2020 16:53:33 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] arm64, numa: Change the numa init functions name
 to be generic
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 11:08 AM Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 09:33:14AM -0800, Atish Patra wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 9:14 AM Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 05:17:49PM -0700, Atish Patra wrote:
> > > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/acpi_numa.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/acpi_numa.c
> > > > index 7ff800045434..96502ff92af5 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/acpi_numa.c
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/acpi_numa.c
> > > > @@ -117,16 +117,3 @@ void __init acpi_numa_gicc_affinity_init(struct acpi_srat_gicc_affinity *pa)
> > > >
> > > >       node_set(node, numa_nodes_parsed);
> > > >  }
> > > > -
> > > > -int __init arm64_acpi_numa_init(void)
> > > > -{
> > > > -     int ret;
> > > > -
> > > > -     ret = acpi_numa_init();
> > > > -     if (ret) {
> > > > -             pr_info("Failed to initialise from firmware\n");
> > > > -             return ret;
> > > > -     }
> > > > -
> > > > -     return srat_disabled() ? -EINVAL : 0;
> > > > -}
> > >
> > > I think it's better if arm64_acpi_numa_init() and arm64_numa_init()
> > > remained in the arm64 code. It's not really much code to be shared.
> >
> > RISC-V will probably support ACPI one day. The idea is to not to do
> > exercise again in future.
> > Moreover, there will be arch_numa_init which will be used by RISC-V
> > and there will be arm64_numa_init
> > used by arm64. However, if you feel strongly about it, I am happy to
> > move back those two functions to arm64.
>
> I don't have a strong view on this, only if there's a risk at some point
> of the implementations diverging (e.g. quirks). We can revisit it if
> that happens.
>

Sure. I seriously hope we don't have to deal with arch specific quirks
in future.

> It may be worth swapping patches 1 and 2 so that you don't have an
> arm64_* function in the core code after the first patch (more of a
> nitpick). Either way, feel free to add my ack on both patches:
>

Sure. I will swap 1 & 2 and resend the series.

> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

Thanks.

-- 
Regards,
Atish