Re: [PATCHv11 18/19] x86/acpi: Add support for CPU offlining for ACPI MADT wakeup method

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On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 09:46:53PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 06:47:05PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > Borislav, given this code deduplication effort is not trivial, maybe we
> > can do it as a separate patchset on top of this one?
> 
> Sure, as long as it gets done and doesn't get delayed indefinitely by
> new and more important features enablement.

I will try to deliver it in timely manner.

> Usually, we do unifications and cleanups first - then new features but
> this kexec pile has been long in the making already...
> 
> > I also wounder if it makes sense to combine ident_map.c and
> > set_memory.c.  There's some overlap between the two.
> 
> Yeah, we have a bunch of different pagetable manipulating things, all
> with their peculiarities and unifying them and having a good set of APIs
> which everything else uses, is always a good thing.

Will give it a try.

> And since we're talking cleanups, there's another thing I've been
> looking at critically: CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL. Maybe it is time to get rid of
> it and make the 5level stuff unconditional. And get rid of a bunch of
> code since both vendors support 5level now...

Can do.

-- 
  Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov




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