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Message-ID: <55C47496.5070902@arm.com>
Date:	Fri, 07 Aug 2015 10:04:22 +0100
From:	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
To:	Al Stone <al.stone@...aro.org>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
CC:	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>, patches@...aro.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] ACPI / ARM64: remove usage of BAD_MADT_ENTRY/BAD_MADT_GICC_ENTRY

Hi Al,

On 06/08/15 21:59, Al Stone wrote:
> Now that we have introduced the bad_madt_entry() function, and that
> function is being invoked in acpi_table_parse_madt() for us, there
> is no longer any need to use the BAD_MADT_ENTRY macro, or in the case
> of arm64, the BAD_MADT_GICC_ENTRY, too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Stone <al.stone@...aro.org>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h | 8 --------
>  arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c       | 2 --
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c     | 6 ------
>  3 files changed, 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h
> index 406485e..39248d3 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h
> @@ -19,14 +19,6 @@
>  #include <asm/psci.h>
>  #include <asm/smp_plat.h>
>  
> -/* Macros for consistency checks of the GICC subtable of MADT */
> -#define ACPI_MADT_GICC_LENGTH	\
> -	(acpi_gbl_FADT.header.revision < 6 ? 76 : 80)
> -
> -#define BAD_MADT_GICC_ENTRY(entry, end)						\
> -	(!(entry) || (unsigned long)(entry) + sizeof(*(entry)) > (end) ||	\
> -	 (entry)->header.length != ACPI_MADT_GICC_LENGTH)
> -
>  /* Basic configuration for ACPI */
>  #ifdef	CONFIG_ACPI
>  /* ACPI table mapping after acpi_gbl_permanent_mmap is set */
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> index 50fb469..acd3b27 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -438,8 +438,6 @@ acpi_parse_gic_cpu_interface(struct acpi_subtable_header *header,
>  	struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt *processor;
>  
>  	processor = (struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt *)header;
> -	if (BAD_MADT_GICC_ENTRY(processor, end))
> -		return -EINVAL;
>  
>  	acpi_table_print_madt_entry(header);
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> index 4dd8826..2735611 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> @@ -1055,9 +1055,6 @@ gic_acpi_parse_madt_cpu(struct acpi_subtable_header *header,
>  
>  	processor = (struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt *)header;
>  
> -	if (BAD_MADT_GICC_ENTRY(processor, end))
> -		return -EINVAL;
> -
>  	/*
>  	 * There is no support for non-banked GICv1/2 register in ACPI spec.
>  	 * All CPU interface addresses have to be the same.
> @@ -1079,9 +1076,6 @@ gic_acpi_parse_madt_distributor(struct acpi_subtable_header *header,
>  
>  	dist = (struct acpi_madt_generic_distributor *)header;
>  
> -	if (BAD_MADT_ENTRY(dist, end))
> -		return -EINVAL;
> -
>  	dist_phy_base = dist->base_address;
>  	return 0;
>  }
> 

Thanks a lot for doing this - the proliferation of this macro has been
driving me insane.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>

	M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...
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