linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ACPI: processor: Move MWAIT quirk out of acpi

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Date:   Tue, 29 Aug 2023 16:03:46 +0200
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     "Wilczynski, Michal" <michal.wilczynski@...el.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        andriy.shevchenko@...el.com, artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com,
        mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
        hpa@...or.com, lenb@...nel.org, jgross@...e.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: processor: Move MWAIT quirk out of acpi_processor.c

On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 3:58 PM Wilczynski, Michal
<michal.wilczynski@...el.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 8/29/2023 3:54 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 3:44 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 05:03:29PM +0300, Michal Wilczynski wrote:
> >>> Commit 2a2a64714d9c ("ACPI: Disable MWAIT via DMI on broken Compal board")
> >>> introduced a workaround for MWAIT for a specific x86 system.
> >>>
> >>> Move the code outside of acpi_processor.c to acpi/x86/ directory for
> >>> consistency and rename the functions associated with it, so their names
> >>> start with "acpi_proc_quirk_" to make the goal obvious.
> >>>
> >>> No intentional functional impact.
> >>>
> >> Except for:
> >>
> >> ia64-linux-ld: drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.o: in function `acpi_early_processor_control_setup':
> >> acpi_processor.c:(.init.text+0x712): undefined reference to `acpi_proc_quirk_mwait_check'
> >> ia64-linux-ld: drivers/acpi/processor_pdc.o: in function `acpi_early_processor_set_pdc':
> >> processor_pdc.c:(.init.text+0x72): undefined reference to `acpi_proc_quirk_mwait_check'
> >>
> >> which breaks all ia64 builds.
> >>
> >> Time to retire that architecture yet ? No one but me seems to even
> >> build test it.
> > Including 0-day it seems.  This had been in linux-next for several weeks.
> >
> > Michal, can you have a look at this please?
>
> Hi,
> I'll take a look and get back to you with a fix,

Actually, if I'm not mistaken, the attached patch should be sufficient.

View attachment "acpi-processor-fix-ia64-buil.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (736 bytes)