Re: [PATCH] ACPI/PPTT: fix off-by-one error

Sudeep Holla
2025-05-07T12:30:59Z

On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 11:56:48AM +0000, Heyne, Maximilian wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 12:52:18PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> >
> > Just to understand, this node is absolutely processor node with no
> > private resources ? I find it hard to trust this as most of the CPUs
> > do have L1 I&D caches. If they were present the table can't abruptly end
> > like this.
>
> Yes looks like it. In our case the ACPI subtable has length 0x14 which is
> exactly sizeof(acpi_pptt_processor).
>

OK, this seem like it is emulated platform with no private resources as
it is specified in the other similar patch clearly(QEMU/VM). So this
doesn't match real platforms. Your PPTT is wrong if it is real hardware
platform as you must have private resources.

Anyways if we allow emulation to present CPUs without private resources
we may have to consider allowing this as the computed pointer will match
the table end.

Rafael,

If it is OK for QEMU to present cacheless CPUs, then we need to allow
this logic. What do you think ?

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Regards,
Sudeep