From 5d35704028d09a183448daceab5dcb94f21a3645 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:59:48 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] i386: srat on non-acpi hw fix
This patch adds a check for the return value of acpi_find_root_pointer().
Without this patch systems without ACPI support such as QEMU crashes when
booting a NUMA kernel with CONFIG_ACPI_SRAT=y.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
arch/i386/kernel/srat.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/srat.c b/arch/i386/kernel/srat.c
index 516bf5653b02..8de658db8146 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/srat.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/srat.c
@@ -327,7 +327,12 @@ int __init get_memcfg_from_srat(void)
int tables = 0;
int i = 0;
- acpi_find_root_pointer(ACPI_PHYSICAL_ADDRESSING, rsdp_address);
+ if (ACPI_FAILURE(acpi_find_root_pointer(ACPI_PHYSICAL_ADDRESSING,
+ rsdp_address))) {
+ printk("%s: System description tables not found\n",
+ __FUNCTION__);
+ goto out_err;
+ }
if (rsdp_address->pointer_type == ACPI_PHYSICAL_POINTER) {
printk("%s: assigning address to rsdp\n", __FUNCTION__);
--
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