linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sysfs, acpi, tables: Set file size for each ACPI table

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Date:	Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:38:55 -0700
From:	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>
To:	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	lenb@...nel.org, rjw@...ysocki.net, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs, acpi, tables: Set file size for each ACPI table

On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 17:54 +0900, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:
> Currently, each of the ACPI tables exported from
> /sys/firmware/acpi/tables is of zero size:
> 
> $ LANG=C ls -ld /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/*
> -r-------- 1 root root 0 Nov 19 09:48 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/APIC
> -r-------- 1 root root 0 Nov 19 09:48 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/BOOT
> -r-------- 1 root root 0 Nov 19 14:25 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT
> -r-------- 1 root root 0 Nov 19 14:25 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/FACP
> -r-------- 1 root root 0 Nov 19 14:25 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/FACS
> -r-------- 1 root root 0 Nov 19 14:25 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MCFG
> -r-------- 1 root root 0 Nov 19 14:25 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/SRAT
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 19 09:48 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/
> 
> due to which, user-land tools fail reading each table. For example:
> 
> $ acpidump -f /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/SRAT
> Could not get input file size: /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/SRAT
> 
> To deal with the issue, this patch assigns size of each ACPI table to
> the corresponding sysfs file.
> 
> $ LANG=C ls -hld /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/*
> -r-------- 1 root root  94 Nov 19 16:45 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/APIC
> -r-------- 1 root root  40 Nov 19 16:45 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/BOOT
> -r-------- 1 root root 58K Nov 19 16:55 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT
> -r-------- 1 root root 244 Nov 19 16:55 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/FACP
> -r-------- 1 root root  64 Nov 19 16:55 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/FACS
> -r-------- 1 root root  60 Nov 19 16:55 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MCFG
> -r-------- 1 root root 168 Nov 19 16:45 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/SRAT
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   0 Nov 19 16:55 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/
> 
> Then, user-land tools work well like:
> 
> $ acpidump -f /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/SRAT
> SRAT @ 0x0000000000000000
>   0000: 53 52 41 54 A8 00 00 00 02 65 56 4D 57 41 52 45  SRAT.....eVMWARE
>   0010: 4D 45 4D 50 4C 55 47 20 00 00 04 06 56 4D 57 20  MEMPLUG ....VMW
>   0020: 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>   0030: 01 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .(..............
>   0040: 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00  ................
>   0050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 28 00 00 00 00 00 00  .........(......
>   0060: 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 F0 BF 00 00 00 00  ................
>   0070: 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>   0080: 01 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00  .(..............
>   0090: 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00  ...@............
>   00A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                          ........
> 
> Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>

Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>

Thanks,
-Toshi


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