On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 03:59:26PM +0800, Tang Chen wrote: > +/* /** > + * acpi_get_table_desc - Get the acpi table descriptor of a specific table. > + * @signature: The signature of the table to be found. > + * @out_desc: The out returned descriptor. > + * > + * This function iterates acpi_gbl_root_table_list and find the specified > + * table's descriptor. > + * > + * NOTE: The caller has the responsibility to allocate memory for @out_desc. > + * > + * Return AE_OK on success, AE_NOT_FOUND if the table is not found. > + */ > +acpi_status acpi_get_table_desc(char *signature, > + struct acpi_table_desc *out_desc) > +{ > + int pos; > + > + for (pos = 0; > + pos < acpi_gbl_root_table_list.current_table_count; > + pos++) { > + if (!ACPI_COMPARE_NAME > + (&(acpi_gbl_root_table_list.tables[pos].signature), > + signature)) Hohumm... creative formatting. Can't you just cache the tables pointer in a local variable with short name and avoid the creativity? > + continue; > + > + memcpy(out_desc, &acpi_gbl_root_table_list.tables[pos], > + sizeof(struct acpi_table_desc)); > + > + return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_OK); > + } > + > + return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_NOT_FOUND); Also, if we already know that SRAT is what we want, I wonder whether it'd be simpler to store the location of SRAT somewhere instead of trying to be generic with the early processing. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>