[PATCH v5 6/9] irqchip/gic-v3: Parse and export virtual GIC information

Julien Grall julien.grall at arm.com
Mon Apr 11 07:03:15 PDT 2016


On 09/04/16 03:29, Shanker Donthineni wrote:
> Hi Julien,

Hello Shanker,

> On 04/04/2016 06:37 AM, Julien Grall wrote:
>> +static int __init gic_acpi_parse_virt_madt_gicc(struct
>> acpi_subtable_header *header,
>> +						const unsigned long end)
>> +{
>> +	struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt *gicc =
>> +		(struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt *)header;
>> +	int maint_irq_mode;
>> +	static int first_madt = true;
>> +
>> +	maint_irq_mode = (gicc->flags & ACPI_MADT_VGIC_IRQ_MODE) ?
>> +		ACPI_EDGE_SENSITIVE : ACPI_LEVEL_SENSITIVE;
>> +
> Do you think GICC parameters are valid for an unusable processor?

Good point. We don't know if the value will be valid when the processor 
is unusable.

> If not we need a validation check here, some thing like this to skip
> GICC subtable entry.
>
>              if (!(gicc->flags & ACPI_MADT_ENABLED))
>                  return 0;

I will add this check.

Regards,

-- 
Julien Grall



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list