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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Vincent Minet <vincent@vincent-minet.net>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, beth kon <eak@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bios: Fix MADT corruption and RSDT size when using -acpitable
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 19:59:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A0B6CF6.60609@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1242262325-18444-1-git-send-email-vincent@vincent-minet.net>

Vincent Minet wrote:
> External ACPI tables are counted twice for the RSDT size and the load
> address for the first external table is in the MADT (interrupt override
> entries are overwritten).
>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Minet <vincent@vincent-minet.net>
>   

Beth,

I think you had a patch attempting to address the same issue.  It was a 
bit more involved though.

Which is the proper fix and are they both to the same problem?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> ---
>  kvm/bios/rombios32.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kvm/bios/rombios32.c b/kvm/bios/rombios32.c
> index cbd5f15..289361b 100755
> --- a/kvm/bios/rombios32.c
> +++ b/kvm/bios/rombios32.c
> @@ -1626,7 +1626,7 @@ void acpi_bios_init(void)
>      addr = base_addr = ram_size - ACPI_DATA_SIZE;
>      rsdt_addr = addr;
>      rsdt = (void *)(addr);
> -    rsdt_size = sizeof(*rsdt) + external_tables * 4;
> +    rsdt_size = sizeof(*rsdt);
>      addr += rsdt_size;
>  
>      fadt_addr = addr;
> @@ -1787,6 +1787,7 @@ void acpi_bios_init(void)
>              }
>              int_override++;
>              madt_size += sizeof(struct madt_int_override);
> +            addr += sizeof(struct madt_int_override);
>          }
>          acpi_build_table_header((struct acpi_table_header *)madt,
>                                  "APIC", madt_size, 1);
>   


  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-14  0:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-14  0:52 [PATCH] bios: Fix MADT corruption and RSDT size when using -acpitable Vincent Minet
2009-05-14  0:59 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-05-14 16:20   ` Beth Kon
2009-05-15 16:13     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-05-15 18:24       ` Beth Kon

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