Re: [PATCH v6 4/8] arm64: PCI: Support root bridge preparation for Hyper-V

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On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 02:06:53AM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> Currently at root bridge preparation, the corresponding ACPI device will
> be set as the companion, however for a Hyper-V virtual PCI root bridge,
> there is no corresponding ACPI device, because a Hyper-V virtual PCI
> root bridge is discovered via VMBus rather than ACPI table. In order to
> support this, we need to make pcibios_root_bridge_prepare() work with
> cfg->parent being NULL.
> 
> Use a NULL pointer as the ACPI device if there is no corresponding ACPI
> device, and this is fine because: 1) ACPI_COMPANION_SET() can work with
> the second parameter being NULL, 2) semantically, if a NULL pointer is
> set via ACPI_COMPANION_SET(), ACPI_COMPANION() (the read API for this
> field) will return NULL, and since ACPI_COMPANION() may return NULL, so
> users must have handled the cases where it returns NULL, and 3) since
> there is no corresponding ACPI device, it would be wrong to use any
> other value here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>



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