Re: ACPI WARNING: at drivers/acpi/tables/tbfadt.c:348 acpi_tb_create_local_fadt+0x147/0x2f4()

[Andi Kleen]

"Andrew Paprocki" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

[cc Bob More. What is your opinion?]

> This most definitely broke because of:
>
> commit 01a5bba576b9364b33f61f0cd9fa70c2cf5535e2
> Author: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Jul 16 23:27:08 2008 +0200
>
>     Fix FADT parsing
>
> I added printk()s and this is what is reported here:

Thanks for the detailed analysis. 


>
>         printk(KERN_INFO
>                "xpm1a_event_block bit_width=%d pm1_register_length=%d\n",
>                acpi_gbl_FADT.xpm1a_event_block.bit_width, pm1_register_length);
>         acpi_tb_init_generic_address(&acpi_gbl_xpm1a_enable,
>                                      pm1_register_length,
>                                      (acpi_gbl_FADT.xpm1a_event_block.address +
>                                       pm1_register_length));
>
> [    0.000000] xpm1a_event_block bit_width=8 pm1_register_length=0
>
> The bit width is not % 16, so the following patch addition a few lines
> earlier fails:
>
>         WARN_ON(ACPI_MOD_16(acpi_gbl_FADT.xpm1a_event_block.bit_width));

I'll queue a revert for now until this can be resolved properly.

-Andi
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