On 10/03/2015 05:04 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 16:06:05 -0500
> Wei Huang <w...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Wei,
> 
>> Hi Marc,
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> +struct acpi_probe_entry {
>>> +   __u8 id[ACPI_TABLE_ID_LEN];
>>> +   __u8 type;
>>> +   acpi_probe_entry_validate_subtbl subtable_valid;
>>> +   union {
>>> +           acpi_tbl_table_handler probe_table;
>>> +           acpi_tbl_entry_handler probe_subtbl;
>>> +   };
>>
>> Could we avoid using union for probe_table & probe_subtbl? The benefit is 
>> that we don't need to do function casting below and compiler can 
>> automatically check the correctness.
>>
>>> +   kernel_ulong_t driver_data;
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +#define ACPI_DECLARE_PROBE_ENTRY(table, name, table_id, subtable, valid, 
>>> data, fn) \
>>> +   static const struct acpi_probe_entry __acpi_probe_##name        \
>>> +           __used __section(__##table##_acpi_probe_table)          \
>>> +            = {                                                    \
>>> +                   .id = table_id,                                 \
>>> +                   .type = subtable,                               \
>>> +                   .subtable_valid = valid,                        \
>>> +                   .probe_table = (acpi_tbl_table_handler)fn,      \
>>> +                   .driver_data = data,                            \
>>> +              }
>>> +
>>
>> Something like: 
>>
>> #define ACPI_DECLARE_PROBE_ENTRY(table, name, table_id, subtable, valid, 
>> data, fn, subfn)    \
>>      static const struct acpi_probe_entry __acpi_probe_##name        \
>>              __used __section(__##table##_acpi_probe_table)          \
>>               = {                                                    \
>>                      .id = table_id,                                 \
>>                      .type = subtable,                               \
>>                      .subtable_valid = valid,                        \
>>                      .probe_table = fn,                              \
>>                      .probe_subtbl = subfn,                          \
>>                      .driver_data = data,                            \
>>                 }
>>
>> Then in patch 3, you can define new entries as:
>>
>> IRQCHIP_ACPI_DECLARE(gic_v2, ACPI_MADT_TYPE_GENERIC_DISTRIBUTOR,
>>                   gic_validate_dist, ACPI_MADT_GIC_VERSION_V2,
>>                   NULL, gic_v2_acpi_init);
>> IRQCHIP_ACPI_DECLARE(gic_v2_maybe, ACPI_MADT_TYPE_GENERIC_DISTRIBUTOR,
>>                   gic_validate_dist, ACPI_MADT_GIC_VERSION_NONE,
>>                   NULL, gic_v2_acpi_init);
>>
> 
> That's exactly what I was trying to avoid. If you want to do that, do
> it in the IRQCHIP_ACPI_DECLARE macro, as there is strictly no need for
> this this NULL to appear here (MADT always matches by subtable).
> 
> Or even better, have two ACPI_DECLARE* that populate the probe entry in
> a mutually exclusive way (either probe_table is set and both
> valid/subtbl are NULL, or probe_table is NULL and the two other fields
> are set).

Yes, this approach would be sufficient. So users can clearly tell them
apart in terms of usage cases.

Thanks,
-Wei

> 
> Thanks,
> 
>       M.
> 
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