[PATCH 0/2] arm64: ACPI GTDT watchdog fixes

[Lorenzo Pieralisi]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 05:43:15PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Dann recently reported that his ThunderX machine failed to boot since
> 64b499d8df40 ("irqchip/gic-v3: Configure SGIs as standard
> interrupts"), with a not so pretty crash while trying to send an IPI.
> 
> It turned out to be caused by a mix of broken firmware and a buggy
> GTDT watchdog driver. Both have forever been buggy, but the above
> commit revealed that the error handling path of the driver was
> probably the worse part of it all.
> 
> Anyway, this short series has two goals:
> - handle broken firmware in a less broken way
> - make sure that the route cause of the problem can be identified
>   quickly
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	M.
> 
> Marc Zyngier (2):
>   ACPI: GTDT: Don't corrupt interrupt mappings on watchdow probe failure
>   ACPI: irq: Prevent unregistering of GIC SGIs
> 
>  drivers/acpi/arm64/gtdt.c | 10 ++++++----
>  drivers/acpi/irq.c        |  6 +++++-
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Patch(2) needs an ACK from Rafael - usually these patches go via
the ARM64 tree but I don't think it is compulsory for this series.

Thank you !

Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>