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From: Levi Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: broonie@kernel.org, sami.mujawar@arm.com, sudeep.holla@arm.com,
	pierre.gondois@arm.com, hagarhem@amazon.com,
	catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, guohanjun@huawei.com,
	Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] arm64/acpi: panic when failed to init acpi table with acpi=force option
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:59:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z0S7A6uOHpXZbxfy@e129823.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMj1kXGBnYQi05qh0QZk2hVLjVhS774-nT=HLdL_kW1d7nxMVg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Ard.

>
> Calling panic() at this point does not achieve anything useful,
> though. Without ACPI tables or a DT, the only way to observe this
> panic message is by using earlycon= with an explicit MMIO address, and
> it might be better to limp on instead. Is there anything bad that
> might happen because of this, other than the user's wishes getting
> violated?

IMHO, the most weird thing is progressing boot with acpi table although
it failed to initailise. in this situation continuing to boot maybe
dead in unexepceted places. I think it would be better to prevent
futher progress by calling the panic() in this situation.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-11-25 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-25 17:07 [PATCH v2 0/2] small fixes when boot with acpi=force option Yeoreum Yun
2024-11-25 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] arm64/acpi: panic when failed to init acpi table " Yeoreum Yun
2024-11-25 17:30   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-11-25 17:41     ` Mark Brown
2024-11-25 17:59     ` Levi Yun [this message]
2024-11-25 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] efi/fdt: ignore dtb when acpi option is used with force Yeoreum Yun
2024-11-25 17:18   ` Mark Brown
2024-11-25 17:24   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-11-25 17:45     ` Levi Yun
2024-11-25 17:53       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-11-25 18:15         ` Levi Yun
2024-11-25 18:32           ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-11-25 18:47             ` Levi Yun

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