RE: [PATCH, RFC] Create 'slot' sysfs attributein/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/topology/

Luck, Tony
2008-03-21T23:58:30Z

+ if (ACPI_SUCCESS(acpi_get_handle(pr->handle, "_SUN", &handle))) {
+ status = acpi_evaluate_object(pr->handle,
+ "_SUN", NULL, &buffer);
+ if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
+ object.integer.value = -1;
+ } else {
+ object.integer.value = -1;
+ }
+ arch_set_topology_slot(pr->id, object.integer.value);
+
if (!object.processor.pblk_address)
ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, "No PBLK (NULL address)\n"));
else if (object.processor.pblk_length != 6)

I'm still seeing these messages:

"ACPI: Invalid PBLK length [0]"

for every cpu. Presumably because "object" is a union and when
you did the "object.integer.value = -1;" you scribbled on some bits
that were needed in the subsequent code.

-Tony