On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 12:49:16PM +0800, Xuesong Chen wrote: > Hello All, > > The idea of this patch set is very strainforward, it's somehow a refactor > of the original codes to share some ones that they should do. Based on that, > we can resolve the MCFG address access issue in APEI module on x86 in a > command way instead of the current arch-dependent one, while this issue also > does happen on ARM64 platform. > > The logic of the series is very clear(IMO it's even time-wasting to explain that): If you want people to look at and care about your changes, it is never a waste of time to explain them. > Patch #1: Escalating the 'pci_mmcfg_list' and 'pci_mmcfg_region' to the > pci.[c,h] which will shared by all the arches. A common sense, in some degree. > > Patch #2: Since the 'pci_mmcfg_list' now can be shared across all arches, > the arch-specific fix method can be replaced by the new solution naturally. > > Now the v3 patch has been finalized, can we move forward to the next step? - > either give the concerns/objections or pick it up. It's helpful to your reviewers if you include a note about changes between v2 and v3, as you did in your v2 0/2 cover letter. It's also helpful if you thread the series with patches 1 and 2 as responses to the cover letter. That makes it easy to download the patches using b4. Here's a little more background: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst?id=v5.14#n320 > Xuesong Chen (2): > PCI: MCFG: Consolidate the separate PCI MCFG table entry list > ACPI: APEI: Filter the PCI MCFG address with an arch-agnostic method > > arch/x86/include/asm/pci_x86.h | 17 +--------------- > arch/x86/pci/mmconfig-shared.c | 30 ---------------------------- > drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- > drivers/acpi/pci_mcfg.c | 34 ++++++++++++------------------- > drivers/pci/pci.c | 2 ++ > include/linux/pci.h | 17 ++++++++++++++++ > 6 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-) > > -- > 1.8.3.1 >
