On Wed, Dec 13 2023 at 12:50, Russell King (Oracle) wrote: > From: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> > > The 'offline' file in sysfs shows all offline CPUs, including those > that aren't present. User-space is expected to remove not-present CPUs > from this list to learn which CPUs could be brought online. > > CPUs can be present but not-enabled. These CPUs can't be brought online > until the firmware policy changes, which comes with an ACPI notification > that will register the CPUs. > > With only the offline and present files, user-space is unable to > determine which CPUs it can try to bring online. Add a new CPU mask > that shows this based on all the registered CPUs. > > Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Miguel Luis <miguel.luis@xxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Vishnu Pajjuri <vishnu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
