Re: [PATCH v3] ACPI / Sleep: Check low power idle constraints for debug only

[Srinivas Pandruvada]

On Sun, 2017-08-13 at 00:37 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Srinivas Pandruvada
> <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 2017-08-12 at 16:27 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > +
> > > > +struct lpi_constraints {
> > > > +ÂÂÂchar *name;
> > > > +ÂÂÂint min_dstate;
> > > If you store the handle here as well, you won't need to
> > > look it up every time _check_constraints() is called.
> > The reason I didn't keep handle here, I thought handle can be stale
> > or
> > change for PnP device on plug in and out. Is this not true?
> The handles don't go away on hot remove as a rule.ÂÂThat may only
> happen if tables get unloaded, but basically the constraints should
> not point to anything in a table that may go away.
So we don't need to worry about this case where tables gets unloaded
and replaced? This is in a debug path, so additional overhead of path
to handle conversion may not be significant.

Thanks,
Srinivas