Re: [PATCH 2/4] ACPI / PPTT: Stop acpi_count_levels() expecting callers to clear levels

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On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 05:13:34PM +0000, James Morse wrote:
> acpi_count_levels() passes the number of levels back via a pointer argument.
> It also passes this to acpi_find_cache_level() as the starting_level, and
> preserves this value as it walks up the cpu_node tree counting the levels.
> 
> The only caller acpi_get_cache_info() happens to have already initialised
> levels to zero, which acpi_count_levels() depends on to get the correct
> result.
> 
> Explicitly zero the levels variable, so the count always starts at zero.
> This saves any additional callers having to work out they need to do this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/pptt.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/pptt.c b/drivers/acpi/pptt.c
> index aaf9b5a26d07..72e6bfc1e358 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/pptt.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/pptt.c
> @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ acpi_find_cache_level(struct acpi_table_header *table_hdr,
>   * @cpu_node: processor node we wish to count caches for
>   * @levels: Number of levels if success.
>   * @split_levels:	Number of split cache levels (data/instruction) if
> - *			success. Can by NULL.
> + *			success. Can be NULL.
>   *
>   * Given a processor node containing a processing unit, walk into it and count
>   * how many levels exist solely for it, and then walk up each level until we hit
> @@ -196,6 +196,8 @@ static void acpi_count_levels(struct acpi_table_header *table_hdr,
>  			      struct acpi_pptt_processor *cpu_node,
>  			      unsigned int *levels, unsigned int *split_levels)
>  {
> +	*levels = 0;
> +

Does it make sense to drop similar reset to 0 in acpi_get_cache_info(), just
to be consistent across all callers of acpi_count_levels().

Otherwise, LGTM:

Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep




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