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SubjectRe: [RFC 1/2] ACPI, APEI, Add apei_exec_run_optional
Hi, Gong,

Thanks for review.

On 07/05/2011 09:53 PM, Gong Chen wrote:
> 于 2011/7/5 14:07, Huang Ying 写道:
>> Some actions in APEI ERST and EINJ tables are optional, for example,
>> ACPI_EINJ_BEGIN_OPERATION action is used to do some preparation for
>> error injection, and firmware may choose to do nothing here. While
>> some other actions are mandatory, for example, firmware must provide
>> ACPI_EINJ_GET_ERROR_TYPE implementation.
>>
>> Original implementation treats all actions as optional (that is, can
>> have no instructions), that may cause issue if firmware does not
>> provide some mandatory actions. To fix this, this patch adds
>> apei_exec_run_optional, which should be used for optional actions.
>> The original apei_exec_run should be used for mandatory actions.
>>
>> Cc: Thomas Renninger<trenn@novell.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying<ying.huang@intel.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c | 9 +++++----
>> drivers/acpi/apei/apei-internal.h | 13 ++++++++++++-
>> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c
>> @@ -157,9 +157,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(apei_exec_noop);
>> * Interpret the specified action. Go through whole action table,
>> * execute all instructions belong to the action.
>> */
>> -int apei_exec_run(struct apei_exec_context *ctx, u8 action)
>> +int __apei_exec_run(struct apei_exec_context *ctx, u8 action,
>> + bool optional)
>> {
>> - int rc;
>> + int rc = -ENOENT;
>> u32 i, ip;
>> struct acpi_whea_header *entry;
>> apei_exec_ins_func_t run;
>> @@ -198,9 +199,9 @@ rewind:
>> goto rewind;
>> }
>>
>> - return 0;
>> + return !optional&& rc< 0 ? rc : 0;
>
> if one operation is optional but running into errors when executing this
> kind of command,
> here just ignoring it. Is it reasonable ?

If we running into errors except there is no instructions for the
action, we will return the error code before this. Please take a look
at the whole function.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying
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