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

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



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>



[Index of Archives]     [DMA Engine]     [Linux Coverity]     [Linux USB]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [Greybus]

  Powered by Linux