On Wed, May 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla@arm.com wrote:
On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 11:56:48AM +0000, Heyne, Maximilian wrote:
On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 12:52:18PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
Just to understand, this node is absolutely processor node with no private resources ? I find it hard to trust this as most of the CPUs do have L1 I&D caches. If they were present the table can't abruptly end like this.
Yes looks like it. In our case the ACPI subtable has length 0x14 which is exactly sizeof(acpi_pptt_processor).
OK, this seem like it is emulated platform with no private resources as it is specified in the other similar patch clearly(QEMU/VM). So this doesn't match real platforms. Your PPTT is wrong if it is real hardware platform as you must have private resources.
Anyways if we allow emulation to present CPUs without private resources we may have to consider allowing this as the computed pointer will match the table end.
Rafael,
If it is OK for QEMU to present cacheless CPUs, then we need to allow this logic. What do you think ?
I don't see why QEMU would be disallowed to do so.