linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] ACPI: processor: Provide empty stub of acpi_proc_quirk_mwait

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Message-ID: <CAMj1kXHpVroVqXxH72XNJP5=dYDcfBiZex2wE2jOsSFNEAYqxg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 21 Sep 2023 13:09:04 +0000
From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc:     Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Wilczynski <michal.wilczynski@...el.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] ACPI: processor: Provide empty stub of acpi_proc_quirk_mwait_check()

On Thu, 21 Sept 2023 at 13:04, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net> wrote:
>
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
>
> Commit 0a0e2ea642f6 ("ACPI: processor: Move MWAIT quirk out of
> acpi_processor.c") added acpi_proc_quirk_mwait_check() that is
> only defined for x86 and is unlikely to be defined for any other
> architectures, so put it under #ifdef CONFIG_X86 and provide
> an empty stub implementation of it for the other cases.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/c7a05a44-c0be-46c2-a21d-b242524d482b@roeck-us.net
> Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/commit/?h=remove-ia64&id=a0334bf78b95532cec54f56b53e8ae1bfe7e1ca1
> Fixes: 0a0e2ea642f6 ("ACPI: processor: Move MWAIT quirk out of acpi_processor.c")
> Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
> Reported-by: Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@....de>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> ---
>
> This is kind of orthogonal to
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/commit/?h=remove-ia64&id=a0334bf78b95532cec54f56b53e8ae1bfe7e1ca1
>
> because if any architectures other than x86 and ia64 decide to use the
> processor _OSC, they will see the reported build error.
>

You mean when other arches #define CONFIG_ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_ACPI_PDC too, right?

In any case, this is going to conflict with my change, which is
already in linux-next (you were cc'ed on the PR to asm-generic). What
do you propose here?






> ---
>  drivers/acpi/internal.h |   14 ++++----------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-pm/drivers/acpi/internal.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-pm.orig/drivers/acpi/internal.h
> +++ linux-pm/drivers/acpi/internal.h
> @@ -148,8 +148,11 @@ int acpi_wakeup_device_init(void);
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_ACPI_PDC
>  void acpi_early_processor_control_setup(void);
>  void acpi_early_processor_set_pdc(void);
> -
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86
>  void acpi_proc_quirk_mwait_check(void);
> +#else
> +static inline void acpi_proc_quirk_mwait_check(void) {}
> +#endif
>  bool processor_physically_present(acpi_handle handle);
>  #else
>  static inline void acpi_early_processor_control_setup(void) {}
>
>
>