Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86, acpi: Handle apic/x2apic entries in MADT in correct order

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Tue Sep 08 2015 - 11:22:23 EST


On 08/09/15 12:08, Lukasz Anaczkowski wrote:
> ACPI specifies the following rules when listing APIC IDs:
> (1) Boot processor is listed first
> (2) For multi-threaded processors, BIOS should list the first logical
> processor of each of the individual multi-threaded processors in MADT
> before listing any of the second logical processors.
> (3) APIC IDs < 0xFF should be listed in APIC subtable, APIC IDs >= 0xFF
> should be listed in X2APIC subtable

[snip]

> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/tables.c b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
> index ececeac..bc23220 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/tables.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
> @@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ acpi_parse_entries(char *id, unsigned long table_size,
> struct acpi_subtable_header *entry;
> int count = 0;
> unsigned long table_end;
> + int i;
>
> if (acpi_disabled)
> return -ENODEV;
> @@ -269,7 +270,7 @@ acpi_parse_entries(char *id, unsigned long table_size,
> for (i = 0; i < proc_num; i++) {
> if (entry->type != proc[i].id)
> continue;
> - if (!proc->handler || proc[i].handler(entry, table_end)) {
> + if (!proc->handler || proc[i].handler(entry, table_end))
> return -EINVAL;

This needs to be moved into the right patch, because this is otherwise
not bisectable...

M.
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