linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 09/18] ARM64 / ACPI: Parse FADT table to get PSCI flags for PSCI init

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Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:54:11 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Cc:	"hanjun.guo@...aro.org" <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@....com>,
	"grant.likely@...aro.org" <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	"graeme.gregory@...aro.org" <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Sudeep Holla <Sudeep.Holla@....com>,
	"jcm@...hat.com" <jcm@...hat.com>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier@....com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
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	Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@....com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Charles Garcia-Tobin <Charles.Garcia-Tobin@....com>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 09/18] ARM64 / ACPI: Parse FADT table to get PSCI
 flags for PSCI init

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 07:38:08AM +0100, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:00:07PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> > +static int __init acpi_parse_fadt(struct acpi_table_header *table)
> > +{
> > +	struct acpi_table_fadt *fadt = (struct acpi_table_fadt *)table;
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Revision in table header is the FADT Major revision,
> > +	 * and there is a minor revision of FADT which was introduced
> > +	 * by ACPI 5.1, we only deal with ACPI 5.1 or higher revision
> > +	 * to get arm boot flags, or we will disable ACPI.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (table->revision > 5 ||
> > +	    (table->revision == 5 && fadt->minor_revision >= 1))
> > +		return 0;
> 
> The commend and code disagree. The code says 5.1 or newer, while the comment say
> _only_ 5.1. One or the other needs to change.

I don't think the comment and code disagree, it says "we only deal with
ACPI 5.1 _or_ higher revision".

But since you mention it and following my other thread with Grant, I
think at least for now we should make this check 5.1 only.

-- 
Catalin
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