linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 08/16] acpi/ghes: don't check if physical

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Message-ID: <20241204141246.37a7cb9d@imammedo.users.ipa.redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 14:12:46 +0100
From: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>, Shiju Jose
 <shiju.jose@...wei.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Ani Sinha
 <anisinha@...hat.com>, Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu1@...il.com>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, qemu-arm@...gnu.org, qemu-devel@...gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 08/16] acpi/ghes: don't check if physical_address is
 not zero

On Wed,  4 Dec 2024 08:41:16 +0100
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> wrote:

> The 'physical_address' value is a faulty page. As such, 0 is
> as valid as any other value.
> 
> Suggested-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>

> ---
>  hw/acpi/ghes.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/acpi/ghes.c b/hw/acpi/ghes.c
> index edc74c38bf8a..a3dffd78b012 100644
> --- a/hw/acpi/ghes.c
> +++ b/hw/acpi/ghes.c
> @@ -400,10 +400,6 @@ int acpi_ghes_record_errors(uint16_t source_id, uint64_t physical_address)
>  
>      start_addr = le64_to_cpu(ags->ghes_addr_le);
>  
> -    if (!physical_address) {
> -        return -1;
> -    }
> -
>      start_addr += source_id * sizeof(uint64_t);
>  
>      cpu_physical_memory_read(start_addr, &error_block_addr,