Re: [PATCH v1 2/9] ACPI: processor: idle: Return failure if entry method is not buffer or integer type

["lihuisong (C)" <lihuisong@huawei.com>]

在 2025/10/23 18:07, Rafael J. Wysocki 写道:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM lihuisong (C) <lihuisong@huawei.com> wrote:
>>
>> 在 2025/10/22 3:34, Rafael J. Wysocki 写道:
>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM Huisong Li <lihuisong@huawei.com> wrote:
>>>> According to ACPI spec, entry method in LPI sub-package must be buffer
>>>> or integer. However, acpi_processor_evaluate_lpi() regeards it as success
>>>> and treat it as an effective LPI state.
>>> Is that the case?  AFAICS, it just gets to the next state in this case
>>> and what's wrong with that?
>> The flatten_lpi_states() would consider the state with illegal entry
>> method sub-package as a valid one
>> if the flag of this state is enabled(ACPI_LPI_STATE_FLAGS_ENABLED is set).
>> And then cpuidle governor would use it because the caller of
>> acpi_processor_ffh_lpi_probe() also don't see the return value.
> So the problem appears to be that lpi_state increments in every step
> of the loop, but it should only increment if the given state is valid.
Yes,
So set the flag of the state with illegal entry method sub-package to 
zero so that this invalid LPI state will be skiped in 
flatten_lpi_states(), ok?