Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] ACPI/PPTT: Add support for ACPI 6.3 thread flag

From: Jeremy Linton
Date: Tue Jun 18 2019 - 17:33:38 EST


Hi,

On 6/18/19 12:23 PM, John Garry wrote:
On 18/06/2019 15:40, Valentin Schneider wrote:
On 18/06/2019 15:21, Jeremy Linton wrote:
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+ * Return: -ENOENT if the PPTT doesn't exist, the CPU cannot be found or
+ *ÂÂÂÂÂÂ the table revision isn't new enough.
+ * Otherwise returns flag value
+ */

Nit: strictly speaking we're not returning the flag value but its mask
applied to the flags field. I don't think anyone will care about getting
the actual flag value, but it should be made obvious in the doc:

Or I clarify the code to actually do what the comments says. Maybe that is what John G was also pointing out too?


No, I was just saying that the kernel topology can be broken without this series.


Mmm I didn't find any reply from John regarding this in v1, but I wouldn't
mind either way, as long as the doc & code are aligned.


BTW, to me, function acpi_pptt_cpu_is_thread() seems to try to do too much, i.e. check if the PPTT is new enough to support the thread flag and also check if it is set for a specific cpu. I'd consider separate functions here.

? Your suggesting replacing the


if (table->revision >= rev)
cpu_node = acpi_find_processor_node(table, acpi_cpu_id);

check with

if (revision_check(table, rev))
cpu_node = acpi_find_processor_node(table, acpi_cpu_id);


and a function like

static int revision_check(acpixxxx *table, int rev)
{
return (table->revision >= rev);
}

Although, frankly if one were to do this, it should probably be a macro with the table type, and used in the dozen or so other places I found doing similar checks (spcr, iort, etc).

Or something else?





thanks,
John

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