Re: [PATCH v3 07/35] acpi: acpi_build_hest: use acpi_table_begin()/acpi_table_end() instead of build_header()

[Eric Auger <eauger@redhat.com>]

On 9/7/21 4:47 PM, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> it replaces error-prone pointer arithmetic for build_header() API,
> with 2 calls to start and finish table creation,
> which hides offsets magic from API user.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>

Eric
> ---
> v3:
>   * s/acpi_init_table|acpi_table_composed/acpi_table_begin|acpi_table_end/
> 
> CC: qemu-arm@nongnu.org
> CC: drjones@redhat.com
> CC: gengdongjiu1@gmail.com
> CC: eauger@redhat.com
> ---
>  hw/acpi/ghes.c | 10 ++++------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/acpi/ghes.c b/hw/acpi/ghes.c
> index a749b84d62..45d9a809cc 100644
> --- a/hw/acpi/ghes.c
> +++ b/hw/acpi/ghes.c
> @@ -362,18 +362,16 @@ static void build_ghes_v2(GArray *table_data, int source_id, BIOSLinker *linker)
>  void acpi_build_hest(GArray *table_data, BIOSLinker *linker,
>                       const char *oem_id, const char *oem_table_id)
>  {
> -    uint64_t hest_start = table_data->len;
> +    AcpiTable table = { .sig = "HEST", .rev = 1,
> +                        .oem_id = oem_id, .oem_table_id = oem_table_id };
>  
> -    /* Hardware Error Source Table header*/
> -    acpi_data_push(table_data, sizeof(AcpiTableHeader));
> +    acpi_table_begin(&table, table_data);
>  
>      /* Error Source Count */
>      build_append_int_noprefix(table_data, ACPI_GHES_ERROR_SOURCE_COUNT, 4);
> -
>      build_ghes_v2(table_data, ACPI_HEST_SRC_ID_SEA, linker);
>  
> -    build_header(linker, table_data, (void *)(table_data->data + hest_start),
> -                 "HEST", table_data->len - hest_start, 1, oem_id, oem_table_id);
> +    acpi_table_end(linker, &table);
>  }
>  
>  void acpi_ghes_add_fw_cfg(AcpiGhesState *ags, FWCfgState *s,
>