RE: [PATCH v2 05/18] ARM64 / ACPI: Parse FADT table to get PSCI flags for PSCI init

From: Moore, Robert
Date: Tue Aug 19 2014 - 18:56:27 EST


I should warn you that FADT version numbers are notoriously unreliable; In fact, in ACPICA we were eventually forced to abandon them entirely. We use the actual size of the FADT instead.

Bob



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hanjun Guo [mailto:hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:14 AM
> To: Mark Rutland
> Cc: Catalin Marinas; Rafael J. Wysocki; graeme.gregory@xxxxxxxxxx; Arnd
> Bergmann; Olof Johansson; grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx; Sudeep Holla; Will
> Deacon; Jason Cooper; Marc Zyngier; Bjorn Helgaas; Daniel Lezcano; Mark
> Brown; Rob Herring; Robert Richter; Zheng, Lv; Moore, Robert; Lorenzo
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/18] ARM64 / ACPI: Parse FADT table to get PSCI
> flags for PSCI init
>
> On 2014-8-19 19:10, Mark Rutland wrote:
> >>>> @@ -47,6 +49,26 @@ void __init __acpi_unmap_table(char *map, unsigned
> long size)
> >>>> early_memunmap(map, size);
> >>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>> +static int __init acpi_parse_fadt(struct acpi_table_header *table)
> >>>> +{
> >>>> + struct acpi_table_fadt *fadt = (struct acpi_table_fadt
> *)table;
> >>>> +
> >>>> + /*
> >>>> + * Revision in table header is the FADT Major version,
> >>>> + * and there is a minor version of FADT which was introduced
> >>>> + * by ACPI 5.1, we only deal with ACPI 5.1 or higher version
> >>>> + * to get arm boot flags, or we will disable ACPI.
> >>>> + */
> >>>> + if (table->revision < 5 || fadt->minor_revision < 1) {
> >>>
> >>> If we ever get revision 6.0, this would trigger.
> >>
> >> Yes, good catch, actually I already fixed that in my local git repo,
> >>
> >> + if (table->revision > 5 ||
> >> + (table->revision == 5 && fadt->minor_revision >= 1)) {
> >> + return 0;
> >> + } else {
> >> + pr_info("FADT revision is %d.%d, no PSCI support,
> >> + should be 5.1
> >> or higher\n",
> >> + table->revision, fadt->minor_revision);
> >> + disable_acpi();
> >> + return -EINVAL;
> >> + }
> >
> > Given you return in the first path, you don't need the remaining code
> > to live in an else block.
>
> Agreed, I will update it, and move disable_acpi() outside this function
> and keep it in one place as Sudeep suggested.
>
> Thanks
> Hanjun

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