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    powerpc/pseries: Expose pseries devicetree_update() · 762ec157
    Nathan Fontenot authored
    
    
    Newer firmware on Power systems can transparently reassign platform resources
    (CPU and Memory) in use. For instance, if a processor or memory unit is
    predicted to fail, the platform may transparently move the processing to an
    equivalent unused processor or the memory state to an equivalent unused
    memory unit. However, reassigning resources across NUMA boundaries may alter
    the performance of the partition. When such reassignment is necessary, the
    Platform Resource Reassignment Notification (PRRN) option provides a
    mechanism to inform the Linux kernel of changes to the NUMA affinity of
    its platform resources.
    
    When rtasd receives a PRRN event, it needs to make a series of RTAS
    calls (ibm,update-nodes and ibm,update-properties) to retrieve the
    updated device tree information. These calls are already handled in the
    pseries_devicetree_update() routine used in partition migration.
    
    This patch exposes pseries_devicetree_update() to make it accessible
    to other pseries routines, this patch also updates pseries_devicetree_update()
    to take a 32-bit scope parameter. The scope value, which was previously hard
    coded to 1 for partition migration, is used for the RTAS calls
    ibm,update-nodes/properties to update the device tree.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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