Re: [PATCH v7 2/4] drivers/acpi: Introduce Platform Firmware Runtime Update device driver

[Chen Yu]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 01:21:36PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 05:33:20PM +0800, Chen Yu wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 01:20:33PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 03:07:51PM +0800, Chen Yu wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > > > +	guid_t *image_type_id = &img_hdr->image_type_id;
> > > 
> > > efi_guid_t ?
> > >
> > efi_guid_t is a 32-bit aligned guid_t, which is for the case when
> > efi_guid_t* arguments are 32-bit aligned. And it is for 32-bit ARM.
> > Since this code injection is only for 64-bit, the guid is not required
> > to be strictly 32-bit aligned I suppose?
> 
> But the type of that member may not be guid_t. So, I expect not to see guid_t
> at all here or as a internal member with the export/import GUID API in place.
>
> See, for example
> d1c6e08e7503 ("libnvdimm/labels: Add uuid helpers")
>
8b03aa0e0e5a ("libnvdimm/labels: Add type-guid helpers") I suppose. Do you
mean, since the label is not delcared as uuid type, then need to treat the
data region as a uuid. But it is actually not a formal 'uuid' type, so uuid_t
is not applicable here. And this also applys to the case in this patch?
> ...
> 
> > > > +	ret = guid_parse(PFRU_UUID, &pfru_dev->uuid);
> 
> > > > +	ret = guid_parse(PFRU_CODE_INJ_UUID, &pfru_dev->code_uuid);
> 
> > > > +	ret = guid_parse(PFRU_DRV_UPDATE_UUID, &pfru_dev->drv_uuid);
> 
> > > Why do you need to keep zillions of copies of the data which seems
> > > is not going to be changed? Three global variables should be enough,
> > > no?
> > >
> > The guid information is embedded in each pfru_dev and only calculated
> > once during probe. I thought people try to avoid using global variables
> > if possible?
> 
> Use your common sense. You might have a lot of data duplication,
> and this data is definitely not something that needs any kind of
> serialization / personification / etc.
> 
Ok, I'll switch to global variables in next version.

thanks,
Chenyu
> -- 
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
> 
>