linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: clean the additional checks before calling ghes_notify

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Date:   Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:06:18 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:     Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@...wei.com>
Cc:     catalin.marinas@....com, mark.rutland@....com, lenb@...nel.org,
        rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com, erik.schmauss@...el.com,
        robert.moore@...el.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        devel@...ica.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: clean the additional checks before calling
 ghes_notify_sea()

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 05:01:47PM -0400, Dongjiu Geng wrote:
> In order to remove the additional check before calling the
> ghes_notify_sea(), make stub definition when !CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_SEA.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@...wei.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>

Will

> This cleanup is ever mentioned by Mark Rutland in [1]
> 
> [1]:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/31/289
> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 7 +------
>  include/acpi/ghes.h   | 4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
> index b8eecc7..9ffe01d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
> @@ -727,12 +727,7 @@ static int do_sea(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr, struct pt_regs *regs)
>  
>  int handle_guest_sea(phys_addr_t addr, unsigned int esr)
>  {
> -	int ret = -ENOENT;
> -
> -	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_SEA))
> -		ret = ghes_notify_sea();
> -
> -	return ret;
> +	return ghes_notify_sea();
>  }
>  
>  asmlinkage void __exception do_mem_abort(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr,
> diff --git a/include/acpi/ghes.h b/include/acpi/ghes.h
> index 1624e2b..82cb4eb 100644
> --- a/include/acpi/ghes.h
> +++ b/include/acpi/ghes.h
> @@ -118,6 +118,10 @@ static inline void *acpi_hest_get_next(struct acpi_hest_generic_data *gdata)
>  	     (void *)section - (void *)(estatus + 1) < estatus->data_length; \
>  	     section = acpi_hest_get_next(section))
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_SEA
>  int ghes_notify_sea(void);
> +#else
> +static inline int ghes_notify_sea(void) { return -ENOENT; }
> +#endif
>  
>  #endif /* GHES_H */
> -- 
> 1.9.1
>