Re: [PATCH] ACPI: PPTT: Fix table length check when parsing processor nodes

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On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 03:35:50PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2025 12:55:00 +0100
> Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 

[...]

> > 
> > Indeed and also we should have private resources like L1 cache described
> > after the initial 20 bytes of the node. So I am bit worried if this will
> > just hide other problems while it may solve this problem by looks of it.
> > This example doesn't look like a proper PPTT matching real systems.
> > 
> 
> Assuming I'm understanding the bug correctly...
> 
> SMT systems will hit this. There will typically be no private resources
> for a thread as the L1I/D shared by multiple threads (which are processor
> nodes IIRC).  Note we are trying to improve the cache description in QEMU
> at the moment as it would definitely be better to present caches in PPTT,
> but that isn't the main issue here.
> 

Indeed, I just replied in the other thread that I clearly missed SMT.

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep




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