linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 06/10] irqchip/gic-v3: Gather all ACPI specific data in a single structure

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Date:	Sat, 23 Apr 2016 22:02:35 -0500
From:	Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@...eaurora.org>
To:	Julien Grall <julien.grall@....com>, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu
Cc:	wei@...hat.com, christoffer.dall@...aro.org, al.stone@...aro.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, hanjun.guo@...aro.org, marc.zyngier@....com,
	Tomasz Nowicki <tn@...ihalf.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	fu.wei@...aro.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, gg@...mlogic.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 06/10] irqchip/gic-v3: Gather all ACPI specific data in
 a single structure



On 04/11/2016 10:32 AM, Julien Grall wrote:
> The ACPI code requires to use global variables in order to collect
> information from the tables.
>
> To make clear those variables are ACPI specific, gather all of them in a
> single structure.
>
> Furthermore, even if some of the variables are not marked with
> __initdata, they are all only used during the initialization. Therefore,
> the new variable, which hold the structure, can be marked with
> __initdata.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@....com>
> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
>
Tested-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@...eaurora.org>

Using the Qualcomm Technologies QDF2XXX server platform.

-- 
Shanker Donthineni
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project