RE: [PATCH] x86, arm64, acpi: Handle lapic/x2apic entries in MADT

[Anaczkowski, Lukasz]

From: Tomasz Nowicki [mailto:tomasz.nowicki@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 10:03 AM

>> To fix this, each LAPIC/X2APIC entry from MADT table needs to be 
>> handled at the same time when processing it, thus adding 
>> acpi_subtable_proc structure which stores
>> () ACPI table id
>> () handler that processes table
>> () counter how many items has been processed and passing it to 
>> acpi_table_parse_entries().

> Why can't you leave the parsing code as is and create ApicId sorted list while parsing LAPIC/X2APIC? You could call acpi_register_lapic() after all... Do I miss something ?

Just to make sure I understand correctly - you suggest to replace calls to acpi_register_lapic() with a code that builds an APIC ID list while parsing LAPIC/X2APIC, and after parsing is done,
go thru the list and call acpi_register_lapic() on each APIC ID, correct?

Thanks,
Lukasz
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