On 09/07/2015 09:32 AM, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> Hi Al,
>
> On 19/08/15 23:07, Al Stone wrote:
>
> I finally got a chance to try this series on Juno. Well it exposed a firmware
> bug in MADT table :)
What? The code did what it was supposed to do :-)? Very cool. Good to know.
I talked to Graeme a bit, too, and he had some good suggestions for clean up.
I'll post a v3 tomorrow.
> [..]
>
>> acpi_tbl_entry_handler handler,
>> @@ -245,6 +484,8 @@ acpi_parse_entries(char *id, unsigned long table_size,
>> table_end) {
>> if (entry->type == entry_id
>> && (!max_entries || count < max_entries)) {
>> + if (bad_madt_entry(table_header, entry))
>> + return -EINVAL;
>
> Not sure if we can have the above check here unconditionally.
> Currently I can see there are 2 other users of acpi_parse_entries i.e.
> PCC and NUMA. So may be it can be made conditional or return success for
> non-MADT tables from bad_madt_entry ?
I'll double check these uses. I thought I had before, and based on what I
saw the check would be reasonable. It never hurts to check again, though.
> Other than that, you can add for ARM64 specific parts:
> Reviewed-and-tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
Thanks!
> Regards,
> Sudeep
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