Re: [PATCH] ACPI/SRAT: fix SRAT order parsing when both LAPIC and X2APIC present

From: Lukasz Anaczkowski
Date: Thu Apr 21 2016 - 05:29:16 EST


From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 2:08 AM
> The changelog describes the problem (good), but it doesn't say anything
> about the mitigation (not good). You should say something about what the
> patch does to address the issue, like "To address that problem, do X".

Thanks, Rafael. Sending v2 of the patch with extended commit message.

> Looking at the code, the idea is to check each entry against both LAPIC and
> X2APIC in table order so as to cause them to be mapped in that order too, right?

Yes, that is correct.

Thanks,
Lukasz