Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, ACPI: Fix the wrong assignment when Handle apic/x2apic entries

From: Baoquan He
Date: Wed Aug 10 2016 - 15:08:41 EST


On 08/10/16 at 02:53pm, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > It won't impact the result, we still should fix the code bug.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
> > index 90d84c3..2b25d3f 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
> > @@ -1031,8 +1031,8 @@ static int __init acpi_parse_madt_lapic_entries(void)
> > return ret;
> > }
> >
> > - x2count = madt_proc[0].count;
> > - count = madt_proc[1].count;
> > + count = madt_proc[0].count;
> > + x2count = madt_proc[1].count;
> > }
> > if (!count && !x2count) {
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I mean here the value checking won't be impacted by the wrong
assignment.

> > printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "No LAPIC entries present\n");
>
> Why does this bug have no effect?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ingo