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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 10/18] x86, acpi: Try to find if SRAT is overrided earlier.
On 08/02/2013 09:19 AM, Toshi Kani wrote:
......
>> +phys_addr_t __init early_acpi_override_srat(void)
>> +{
>> + int i;
>> + u32 length;
>> + long offset;
>> + void *ramdisk_vaddr;
>> + struct acpi_table_header *table;
>> + struct cpio_data file;
>> + unsigned long map_step = NR_FIX_BTMAPS<< PAGE_SHIFT;
>> + phys_addr_t ramdisk_image = get_ramdisk_image();
>> + char cpio_path[32] = "kernel/firmware/acpi/";
>
> Don't you need to check if ramdisk is present before parsing the table?
> You may need something like:
>
> if (!ramdisk_image || !get_ramdisk_size())
> return 0;

Yes, it is better to do such a check here. But is there a possibility that
no ramdisk is present and we come to setup_arch() ?

......
>> +
>> + return ramdisk_image;
>
> Doesn't this function return a physical address regardless of SRAT if a
> ramdisk is present?

Yes, and it is not good. I'll add the check above so that this won't happen.

Thanks.



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