Re: [PATCH v4 26/28] PCI, x86, ACPI: Link acpi ioapic register to ioapic

[rui wang]

On 8/27/13, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:44 PM, rui wang <ruiv.wang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 8/27/13, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 5:51 PM, rui wang <ruiv.wang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 8/11/13, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> During ioapic hotplug, acpi_register_ioapic will be called.
>>>>> Now for x86, that function is blank.
>>>>> Fill that will update __mp_register_ioapic to use those ioapic.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 10 ++++++----
>>>>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
>>>>> index 5be15d1..4a5336d 100644
>>>>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
>>>>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
>>>>> @@ -707,16 +707,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_unmap_lsapic);
>>>>>
>>>>>  int acpi_register_ioapic(acpi_handle handle, u64 phys_addr, u32
>>>>> gsi_base)
>>>>>  {
>>>>> -     /* TBD */
>>>>> -     return -EINVAL;
>>>>> +     unsigned long long id = 0;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +     acpi_evaluate_integer(handle, "_UID", NULL, &id);
>>>>
>>>> We cannot assume that "_UID" is an integer. "_UID" can be either an
>>>> integer or a string. Need to consider the case when it is a string.
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> But do you have test case for ioapic that _UID is not integer?
>>>
>>
>> Yes I have an IOAPIC with an _UID of:
>>
>>         Name (_UID, "IOAPIC01")  // _UID: Unique ID
>>
>> It's a bit challenge how you'll conjure unique identifiers from both
>> integers and strings. If you have a new patch I can help try it out.
>
> Then do you have _MAT with that ioapic device or else?
>
> need to find the _MAT entry with GSM matching to find out ioapic id.
>

There's no _MAT for the IOAPICs. I only find _MAT for the LAPICs. But
there's a static MADT in APIC.dsl which contains IOAPIC entries with
ioapic ids.

Thanks
Rui

>
> Thanks
>
> Yinghai
>
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