Re: [PATCH] ACPI, APEI: Fixup incorrect 64-bit access width firmware bug

[Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>]

Le jeudi 17 janvier 2013 à 14:27 -0800, Gary Hade a écrit :
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:54:54PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 05:03:29 PM Lans Zhang wrote:
> > > The bit width check was introduced by 15afae60 (ACPI, APEI: Fix
> > > incorrect APEI register bit width check and usage), and a fixup
> > > for incorrect 32-bit width memory address was given by f712c71
> > > (ACPI, APEI: Fixup common access width firmware bug). Now there
> > > is a similar symptom:
> > > 
> > > [Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0x12345000/64/0/3/0]
> > > 
> > > Another bogus BIOS reports an incorrect 64-bit width in trigger table.
> > > Thus, apply to a similar workaround for 64-bit width memory address.
> > 
> > This makes sense to me, but I'd like more people to have a look at it (Myron,
> > Ying, Gary CCed).
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Rafael
> > 
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Lans Zhang <jia.zhang@windriver.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c |    3 +++
> > >  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c
> > > index 00a7836..46f80e2 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c
> > > @@ -590,6 +590,9 @@ static int apei_check_gar(struct acpi_generic_address *reg, u64 *paddr,
> > >  	if (bit_width == 32 && bit_offset == 0 && (*paddr & 0x03) == 0 &&
> > >  	    *access_bit_width < 32)
> > >  		*access_bit_width = 32;
> > > +	else if (bit_width == 64 && bit_offset == 0 && (*paddr & 0x07) == 0 &&
> > > +	    *access_bit_width < 64)
> > > +		*access_bit_width = 64;
> > >  
> > >  	if ((bit_width + bit_offset) > *access_bit_width) {
> > >  		pr_warning(FW_BUG APEI_PFX
> > > 
> > -- 
> > I speak only for myself.
> > Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
> > 
> 
> This looks reasonable to me.
> Acked-by: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
> 
> Copying Jean Delvare who authored the 32-bit fixup.

I've not seen this specific case yet but yes, the fixup seems perfectly
reasonable.

Acked-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>


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Jean Delvare
Suse L3

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