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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, keescook@chromium.org,
	bhe@redhat.com, msys.mizuma@gmail.com,
	indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com, caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 3/6] x86/boot: Introduce efi_get_rsdp_addr() to find RSDP from EFI table
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 10:07:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190114090756.GA2773@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190114012641.GA30900@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 09:26:42AM +0800, Chao Fan wrote:
> According to the code, I saw:
> #ifdef ACPI_ASL_COMPILER
> #define ACPI_32BIT_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS
> #endif
> 
> and then
> #ifdef ACPI_32BIT_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS
> typedef u32 acpi_physical_address;
> 
> As for ACPI_ASL_COMPILER, I saw iASL in documention, but can't find more
> information in the code. If I miss something, please let me know.

And, as a result, can acpi_physical_address ever be u32 in a kernel
build?

git annotate is also very helpful when doing git archeology like, for
example, finding the patch which added the ifdeffery and looking at its
commit message for more hints.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-14  9:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-07  3:22 [PATCH v15 0/6] x86/boot/KASLR: Parse ACPI table and limit KASLR to choosing immovable memory Chao Fan
2019-01-07  3:22 ` [PATCH v15 1/6] x86/boot: Copy kstrtoull() to boot/string.c instead of using simple_strtoull() Chao Fan
2019-01-09 12:48   ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-10  1:15     ` Chao Fan
2019-01-07  3:22 ` [PATCH v15 2/6] x86/boot: Introduce get_acpi_rsdp() to parse RSDP in cmdline from KEXEC Chao Fan
2019-01-10 17:01   ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-11  1:17     ` Chao Fan
2019-01-07  3:22 ` [PATCH v15 3/6] x86/boot: Introduce efi_get_rsdp_addr() to find RSDP from EFI table Chao Fan
2019-01-10 21:15   ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-11  1:23     ` Chao Fan
2019-01-11 10:32       ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-13  9:47         ` Chao Fan
2019-01-13 11:05           ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-14  1:26             ` Chao Fan
2019-01-14  9:07               ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2019-01-15  7:21                 ` Chao Fan
2019-01-15  9:55                   ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-16  3:26                     ` Chao Fan
2019-01-07  3:22 ` [PATCH v15 4/6] x86/boot: Introduce bios_get_rsdp_addr() to search RSDP in memory Chao Fan
2019-01-10 21:27   ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-11  1:27     ` Chao Fan
2019-01-07  3:22 ` [PATCH v15 5/6] x86/boot: Parse SRAT address from RSDP and store immovable memory Chao Fan
2019-01-16  7:28   ` Kairui Song
2019-01-17  1:42     ` Chao Fan
     [not found]     ` <20190117062451.GA588@localhost.localdomain>
2019-01-17  7:57       ` Chao Fan
2019-01-17  8:22         ` Kairui Song
2019-01-17  9:06           ` Juergen Gross
2019-01-16 11:01   ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-17  1:16     ` Chao Fan
2019-01-17  3:20     ` Chao Fan
2019-01-17 15:27       ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-18  1:14         ` Chao Fan
2019-01-21  9:33     ` Chao Fan
2019-01-21  9:42       ` Chao Fan
2019-01-21  9:45         ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-21  9:51           ` Chao Fan
2019-01-07  3:22 ` [PATCH v15 6/6] x86/boot/KASLR: Limit KASLR to extracting kernel in " Chao Fan
2019-01-16 11:15   ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-17  1:25     ` Chao Fan

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