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      ACPI / processor: Use common hotplug infrastructure · ac212b69
      Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
      Split the ACPI processor driver into two parts, one that is
      non-modular, resides in the ACPI core and handles the enumeration
      and hotplug of processors and one that implements the rest of the
      existing processor driver functionality.
      
      The non-modular part uses an ACPI scan handler object to enumerate
      processors on the basis of information provided by the ACPI namespace
      and to hook up with the common ACPI hotplug infrastructure.  It also
      populates the ACPI handle of each processor device having a
      corresponding object in the ACPI namespace, which allows the driver
      proper to bind to those devices, and makes the driver bind to them
      if it is readily available (i.e. loaded) when the scan handler's
      .attach() routine is running.
      
      There are a few reasons to make this change.
      
      First, switching the ACPI processor driver to using the common ACPI
      hotplug infrastructure reduces code duplication and size considerably,
      even though a new file is created along with a header comment etc.
      
      Second, since the common hotplug code attempts to offline devices
      before starting the (non-reversible) removal procedure, it will abort
      (and possibly roll back) hot-remove operations involving processors
      if cpu_down() returns an error code for one of them instead of
      continuing them blindly (if /sys/firmware/acpi/hotplug/force_remove
      is unset).  That is a more desirable behavior than what the current
      code does.
      
      Finally, the separation of the scan/hotplug part from the driver
      proper makes it possible to simplify the driver's .remove() routine,
      because it doesn't need to worry about the possible cleanup related
      to processor removal any more (the scan/hotplug part is responsible
      for that now) and can handle device removal and driver removal
      symmetricaly (i.e. as appropriate).
      
      Some user-visible changes in sysfs are made (for example, the
      'sysdev' link from the ACPI device node to the processor device's
      directory is gone and a 'physical_node' link is present instead
      and a corresponding 'firmware_node' is present in the processor
      device's directory, the processor driver is now visible under
      /sys/bus/cpu/drivers/ and bound to the processor device), but
      that shouldn't affect the functionality that users care about
      (frequency scaling, C-states and thermal management).
      
      Tested on my venerable Toshiba Portege R500.
      Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
      Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      Reviewed-by: NToshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
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