Re: [PATCH v5 03/18] ACPI / table: Count matched and successfully parsed entries without specifying max entries

[Hanjun Guo]

Hi Rafael,

On 2014å10æ17æ 21:36, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> From: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It is very useful to traverse all available table entries without max
> number of expected entries type. Current acpi_parse_entries()
> implementation gives that feature but it does not count those entries,
> it returns 0 instead, so fix it to count matched and successfully
> entries and return it.
>
> NOTE: This change has no impact to x86 and ia64 archs since existing code
> checks for error occurrence only (acpi_parse_entries(...,0) < 0).
>
> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>

Patch 2 and patch 3 are only for ACPI cores, and have no harm to x86
and IA64, could you merge first in 3.19?

Thanks
Hanjun

> ---
>   drivers/acpi/tables.c |    5 ++++-
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/tables.c b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
> index 21ae521..b18e45e 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/tables.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
> @@ -225,10 +225,13 @@ acpi_parse_entries(unsigned long table_size,
>   	while (((unsigned long)entry) + sizeof(struct acpi_subtable_header) <
>   	       table_end) {
>   		if (entry->type == entry_id
> -		    && (!max_entries || count++ < max_entries))
> +		    && (!max_entries || count < max_entries)) {
>   			if (handler(entry, table_end))
>   				return -EINVAL;
>
> +			count++;
> +		}
> +
>   		/*
>   		 * If entry->length is 0, break from this loop to avoid
>   		 * infinite loop.
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