linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ACPI: GTDT: Relax sanity checking on Platform Timers array count

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Message-Id: <173944516851.2607091.1871789456035802538.b4-ty@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:59:04 +0000
From: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To: linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@...ux.dev>
Cc: catalin.marinas@....com,
	kernel-team@...roid.com,
	Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@...wei.com>,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@...nel.org>,
	Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@...wei.com>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: GTDT: Relax sanity checking on Platform Timers array count

On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:17:49 +0000, Oliver Upton wrote:
> Perhaps unsurprisingly there are some platforms where the GTDT isn't
> quite right and the Platforms Timer array overflows the length of the
> overall table.
> 
> While the recently-added sanity checking isn't wrong, it makes it
> impossible to boot the kernel on offending platforms. Try to hobble
> along and limit the Platform Timer count to the bounds of the table.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/fixes), thanks!

[1/1] ACPI: GTDT: Relax sanity checking on Platform Timers array count
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/f818227a2f3d

Cheers,
-- 
Will

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