Re: [PATCH v8 1/6] AMD/IOMMU: obtain IVHD type to use earlier

["Durrant, Paul" <xadimgnik@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/09/2021 15:36, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Doing this in amd_iommu_prepare() is too late for it, in particular, to
> be used in amd_iommu_detect_one_acpi(), as a subsequent change will want
> to do. Moving it immediately ahead of amd_iommu_detect_acpi() is
> (luckily) pretty simple, (pretty importantly) without breaking
> amd_iommu_prepare()'s logic to prevent multiple processing.
>
> This involves moving table checksumming, as
> amd_iommu_get_supported_ivhd_type() ->  get_supported_ivhd_type() will
> now be invoked before amd_iommu_detect_acpi()  -> detect_iommu_acpi(). In
> the course of doing so stop open-coding acpi_tb_checksum(), seeing that
> we have other uses of this originally ACPI-private function elsewhere in
> the tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xxxxxxx>