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Date:	Thu, 21 Nov 2013 01:32:33 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>
Cc:	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>, lenb@...nel.org,
	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 Wednesday, November 20, 2013 03:38:55 PM Toshi Kani wrote:
> 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!

I've queued up the patch for the next ACPI pull request.

-- 
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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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