[PATCH v3 01/17] ACPI: GTDT: Account for GTDTv3 size when walking the platform timer descriptors
Sudeep Holla
sudeep.holla at kernel.org
Tue May 26 01:06:06 PDT 2026
On Sat, May 23, 2026 at 03:02:26PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Since ARMv8.1, the architecture has grown an EL2-private virtual
> timer. This has been described in ACPI since ACPI v6.3 and revision
> 3 of the GTDT table.
>
> An aditional structure was added in ACPICA, though in a rather
> bizarre way, and merged in v5.1 as 8f5a14d053100 ("ACPICA: ACPI 6.3:
> add GTDT Revision 3 support").
>
> Finally plug the table parsing in GTDT, and correct the parsing of
> the platform timer subtables to account for the expanded size of
> the base table. This also comes with some extra sanitisation of
> the table, in the unlikely case someone got it wrong...
>
> Suggested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at kernel.org>
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Regards,
Sudeep
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