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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 03:24:28 +0000
From: "Quan, Evan" <Evan.Quan@....com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH V5 2/9] driver core: add ACPI based WBRF mechanism
 introduced by AMD

[AMD Official Use Only - General]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
> Sent: Saturday, July 1, 2023 8:51 AM
> To: Quan, Evan <Evan.Quan@....com>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 2/9] driver core: add ACPI based WBRF mechanism
> introduced by AMD
>
> > +   argv4 = kzalloc(sizeof(*argv4) * (2 * num_of_ranges + 2 + 1),
> GFP_KERNEL);
> > +   if (!argv4)
> > +           return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +   argv4[arg_idx].package.type = ACPI_TYPE_PACKAGE;
> > +   argv4[arg_idx].package.count = 2 + 2 * num_of_ranges;
> > +   argv4[arg_idx++].package.elements = &argv4[1];
> > +   argv4[arg_idx].integer.type = ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER;
> > +   argv4[arg_idx++].integer.value = num_of_ranges;
> > +   argv4[arg_idx].integer.type = ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER;
> > +   argv4[arg_idx++].integer.value = action;
>
> There is a lot of magic numbers in that kzalloc. It is being used as an array,
> kcalloc() would be a good start to make it more readable.
> Can some #define's be used to explain what the other numbers mean?
Sure, will update accordingly.
>
> > +   /*
> > +    * Bit 0 indicates whether there's support for any functions other than
> > +    * function 0.
> > +    */
>
> Please make use of the BIT macro to give the different bits informative names.
Sure.
>
> > +   if ((mask & 0x1) && (mask & funcs) == funcs)
> > +           return true;
> > +
> > +   return false;
> > +}
> > +
>
> > +int acpi_amd_wbrf_retrieve_exclusions(struct device *dev,
> > +                                 struct wbrf_ranges_out *out) {
> > +   struct acpi_device *adev = ACPI_COMPANION(dev);
> > +   union acpi_object *obj;
> > +
> > +   if (!adev)
> > +           return -ENODEV;
> > +
> > +   obj = acpi_evaluate_wbrf(adev->handle,
> > +                            WBRF_REVISION,
> > +                            WBRF_RETRIEVE);
> > +   if (!obj)
> > +           return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +   WARN(obj->buffer.length != sizeof(*out),
> > +           "Unexpected buffer length");
> > +   memcpy(out, obj->buffer.pointer, obj->buffer.length);
>
> You WARN, and then overwrite whatever i passed the end of out?  Please at
> least use min(obj->buffer.length, sizeof(*out)), but better still:
>
>    if (obj->buffer.length != sizeof(*out)) {
>          dev_err(dev, "BIOS FUBAR, ignoring wrong sized WBRT information");
>        return -EINVAL;
>    }
OK. Sounds reasonable. Will update as suggested.
>
> > +#if defined(CONFIG_WBRF_GENERIC)
> >  static struct exclusion_range_pool wbrf_pool;
> >
> >  static int _wbrf_add_exclusion_ranges(struct wbrf_ranges_in *in) @@
> > -89,6 +92,7 @@ static int _wbrf_retrieve_exclusion_ranges(struct
> > wbrf_ranges_out *out)
> >
> >     return 0;
> >  }
> > +#endif
>
> I was expecting you would keep these tables, and then call into the BIOS as
> well. Having this table in debugfs seems like a useful thing to have for
> debugging the BIOS.
I'm not sure. Since these interfaces what we designed now kind of serve as a library.
When and where the debugfs should be created will be quite tricky.
>
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_WBRF_AMD_ACPI
> > +#else
> > +static inline bool
> > +acpi_amd_wbrf_supported_consumer(struct device *dev) { return false;
> > +} static inline bool acpi_amd_wbrf_supported_producer(struct device
> > +*dev) {return false; } static inline int
> > +acpi_amd_wbrf_remove_exclusion(struct device *dev,
> > +                          struct wbrf_ranges_in *in) { return -ENODEV; }
> static
> > +inline int acpi_amd_wbrf_add_exclusion(struct device *dev,
> > +                       struct wbrf_ranges_in *in) { return -ENODEV; } static
> inline
> > +int acpi_amd_wbrf_retrieve_exclusions(struct device *dev,
> > +                             struct wbrf_ranges_out *out) { return -
> ENODEV; }
>
> Do you actually need these stub versions?
Yes, these can be dropped. Let me update accordingly.

Evan
>
>       Andrew