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From: "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com>
To: Nikolaus Voss <nv@vosn.de>
Cc: "Shevchenko, Andriy" <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>,
	"Schmauss, Erik" <erik.schmauss@intel.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>,
	"Pavel Machek" <pavel@ucw.cz>, Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>,
	"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"devel@acpica.org" <devel@acpica.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ferry Toth <ftoth@telfort.nl>,
	"nikolaus.voss@loewensteinmedical.de" 
	<nikolaus.voss@loewensteinmedical.de>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] ACPICA: make acpi_load_table() return table index
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 14:20:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <94F2FBAB4432B54E8AACC7DFDE6C92E3B967ADF6@ORSMSX110.amr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1909130911180.20316@fox.voss.local>



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From: Nikolaus Voss [mailto:nv@vosn.de] 
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2019 12:44 AM
To: Moore, Robert <robert.moore@intel.com>
Cc: Shevchenko, Andriy <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>; Schmauss, Erik <erik.schmauss@intel.com>; Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>; Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>; Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>; Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>; Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>; linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org; devel@acpica.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Ferry Toth <ftoth@telfort.nl>; nikolaus.voss@loewensteinmedical.de
Subject: RE: [PATCH] ACPICA: make acpi_load_table() return table index

Bob,

On Thu, 12 Sep 2019, Moore, Robert wrote:
> The ability to unload an ACPI table (especially AML tables such as
> SSDTs) is in the process of being deprecated in ACPICA -- since it is 
> also deprecated in the current ACPI specification. This is being done 
> because of the difficulty of deleting the namespace entries for the 
> table.  FYI, Windows does not properly support this function either.

ok, I see it can be a problem to unload an AML table with all it's consequences e.g. with respect to driver unregistering in setups with complex dependencies. It will only work properly under certain conditions
- nevertheless acpi_tb_unload_table() is still exported in ACPICA and we should get this working as it worked before.

AcpiTbUnloadTable is not exported, it is an internal interface only -- as recognized by the "AcpiTb". I'm not sure that I want to change the interface to AcpiLoadTable just for something that is being deprecated. Already, we throw an ACPI_EXCEPTION if the Unload operator is encountered in the AML byte stream. The same thing with AcpiUnloadParentTable - it is being deprecated.


    ACPI_EXCEPTION ((AE_INFO, AE_NOT_IMPLEMENTED,
        "AML Unload operator is not supported"));


The API change I request is not directly related to table unloading, it's just that the index of the loaded table is returned for future reference:

[...]

>> diff --git a/include/acpi/acpixf.h b/include/acpi/acpixf.h index 
>> 3845c8fcc94e5..c90bbdc4146a6 100644
>> --- a/include/acpi/acpixf.h
>> +++ b/include/acpi/acpixf.h
>> @@ -452,7 +452,8 @@ ACPI_EXTERNAL_RETURN_STATUS(acpi_status ACPI_INIT_FUNCTION
>> 					       u8 physical))
>>
>> ACPI_EXTERNAL_RETURN_STATUS(acpi_status
>> -			    acpi_load_table(struct acpi_table_header *table))
>> +			    acpi_load_table(struct acpi_table_header *table,
>> +					    u32 *table_idx))
>>
>> ACPI_EXTERNAL_RETURN_STATUS(acpi_status
>> 			    acpi_unload_parent_table(acpi_handle object))
>> --
>> 2.17.1
>>

This allows for a simple fix of the regression and doesn't imply future support for table unloading. Would this be acceptable?

Niko

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-13 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-29 12:18 [PATCH 0/3] PWM framework: add support referencing PWMs from ACPI Nikolaus Voss
2019-05-29 12:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] ACPI: Resolve objects on host-directed table loads Nikolaus Voss
2019-05-30 14:42   ` Dan Murphy
2019-05-31 12:23     ` Pavel Machek
2019-05-31 12:45       ` Dan Murphy
2019-05-31 12:46     ` Dan Murphy
2019-06-03  9:12       ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-08-14 18:50   ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-08-14 20:27     ` Schmauss, Erik
2019-08-16 11:57       ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-08-30 14:53         ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2019-09-04  7:20           ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-06 17:46             ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2019-09-12  8:05               ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-12  8:07               ` [PATCH] ACPICA: make acpi_load_table() return table index Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-12 14:19                 ` Moore, Robert
2019-09-12 19:36                   ` Ferry Toth
2019-09-25 18:13                     ` Schmauss, Erik
2019-09-26  8:09                       ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2019-09-13  7:44                   ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-13 14:20                     ` Moore, Robert [this message]
2019-09-13 15:12                       ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2019-09-13 16:48                         ` Ferry Toth
2019-09-13 16:48                           ` Ferry Toth
2019-09-13 17:40                           ` Moore, Robert
2019-09-13 19:56                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-09-16  9:46                             ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-18 14:13                               ` Moore, Robert
2019-09-18 14:31                                 ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-19 17:05                                   ` Moore, Robert
2019-09-23  9:05                                     ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-24 19:41                                       ` Moore, Robert
2019-09-25 10:18                                         ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-25 10:53                                           ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2019-09-19  8:13                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-09-23  9:08                   ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-23  9:47                   ` [PATCH] ACPICA: Introduce acpi_load_table_with_index() Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-24 12:07                     ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2019-09-24 12:08                       ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2019-09-25 10:20                         ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-24 15:11                     ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-09-25 10:22                       ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-26 16:09                 ` [PATCH] ACPICA: make acpi_load_table() return table index Schmauss, Erik
2019-09-26 16:35                   ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2019-09-26 16:51                     ` Schmauss, Erik
2019-09-26 17:47                       ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2019-09-26 18:44                       ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-09-26 19:26                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-09-26 19:41                           ` Schmauss, Erik
2019-09-26 18:43                   ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-05-29 12:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] PWM framework: add support referencing PWMs from ACPI Nikolaus Voss
2019-05-30 14:54   ` Dan Murphy
2019-05-31 12:24     ` Pavel Machek
2019-06-03  9:27     ` Nikolaus Voss
2019-05-29 12:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] leds-pwm.c: support ACPI via firmware-node framework Nikolaus Voss
2019-05-30 15:14   ` Dan Murphy
2019-06-03  9:44     ` Nikolaus Voss

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