thanks, Rafael. Accepted all suggestions. Sent out v3 patch regards James On 12/19/22 09:24, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 7:36 PM James Puthukattukaran > <james.puthukattukaran@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Extending commit aa06e20f1be6 ("x86/ACPI: Don't add CPUs that are not >> online capable") to include acpi_parse_x2apic as well. There is a check >> for invalid apicid; however, there are BIOS FW with madt version >= 5 >> support that do not bother setting apic id to an invalid value since they >> assume the OS will check the enabled and online capable flags. >> >> Signed-off-by: James Puthukattukaran<james.puthukattukaran@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Reported-by: Benjamin Fuller<ben.fuller@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> v2 : use 'enabled' local variable. Also fix checkpatch.pl catches >> --- >> arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 11 ++++++++++- >> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c >> index 907cc98b1938..35d8c8654b42 100644 >> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c >> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c >> @@ -208,7 +208,16 @@ acpi_parse_x2apic(union acpi_subtable_headers *header, const unsigned long end) >> apic_id = processor->local_apic_id; >> enabled = processor->lapic_flags & ACPI_MADT_ENABLED; >> >> - /* Ignore invalid ID */ >> + >> + /* don't register processors that can not be onlined */ >> + if (acpi_support_online_capable && >> + !enabled && > > Is the line break before the "enabled" check necessary? > > I think it would be better to check "enabled" first anyway. > >> + !(processor->lapic_flags & ACPI_MADT_ONLINE_CAPABLE)) >> + return 0; >> + >> + /* for systems older than madt version 5 (does not have >> + * ACPI_MADT_ONLINE_CAPABLE defined), ignore invalid ID >> + */ > > The formatting of the above comment doesn't follow the kernel coding > style for multi-line comments. > >> if (apic_id == 0xffffffff) >> return 0; >> >> --