Re: [PATCH 09/20] ARM64 / ACPI: Implement core functions for parsing MADT table

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Jan 17 2014 - 09:13:01 EST


On Friday 17 January 2014, Hanjun Guo wrote:
>
> +/*
> + * Local interrupt controller address,
> + * GIC cpu interface base address on ARM/ARM64
> + */
> +static u64 acpi_lapic_addr __initdata;

If it's cpu local, don't you need more than one address to support SMP?
Also, the variable appears to be write-only.

> +#define BAD_MADT_ENTRY(entry, end) ( \
> + (!entry) || (unsigned long)entry + sizeof(*entry) > end || \
> + ((struct acpi_subtable_header *)entry)->length < sizeof(*entry))
> +

Better make this an inline function.

> +static int __init
> +acpi_parse_gic(struct acpi_subtable_header *header, const unsigned long end)
> +{
> + struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt *processor = NULL;
> +
> + processor = (struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt *)header;

You don't need the initialization in the first line when you write to the
variable before reading it. Same in the other functions.

Arnd
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