On 08/20/2015 04:13 AM, Will Deacon wrote:

Hi Al,

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:07:25PM +0100, Al Stone wrote:

quoted

Now that we have introduced the bad_madt_entry() function, and that
function is being invoked in acpi_table_parse_madt() for us, there
is no longer any need to use the BAD_MADT_ENTRY macro, or in the case
of arm64, the BAD_MADT_GICC_ENTRY, too.

Signed-off-by: Al Stone <redacted>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <redacted>
Cc: Will Deacon <redacted>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Cc: Jason Cooper <redacted>
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 arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h | 8 --------
 arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c       | 2 --
 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c     | 6 ------
 3 files changed, 16 deletions(-)

How are you planning to merge this (and which kernel are you targetting?)
You've got Acks for both arm64 and irqchip, so I guess either of those
trees could take it.

Yeah, this is a little messy.  If I can get into 4.2, that would be nice,
but not required -- arm64 already has a usable patch for now, and that's
the only arch affected.  So, 4.3 was my primary target (which is why I
worked with linux-next for these).

Which tree?  Yeesh.  1/5 and 5/5 are ACPI only and required for the rest
to work properly; 2/5 is arm64, 3/5 is ia64, and 4/5 is x86.  ARM folks are
the only ones to have provided acks or reviews, however.  I guess I was
assuming this would have to go in via Rafael's ACPI tree since those are
the key parts -- the arch-specific patches would remove safety checks on
MADT subtables without replacing them, if they went in before the ACPI
patches.

Does that make sense?  What do you think?

-- 
ciao,
al
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Al Stone
Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
ahs3 at redhat.com
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