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SubjectRe: arm64/efi handling of persistent memory
On Fri, 18 Dec, at 11:52:24AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:06:51AM +0000, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 01:33:25AM +0000, Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory) wrote:
> > > Similar to the questions about the arm64 efi boot stub
> > > handing persistent memory, some of the arm64 kernel code
> > > looks fishy.
>
> [...]
>
> > > 2. is_reserve_region() treating EFI_PERSISTENT_MEMORY the same
> > > as EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY looks wrong.
> >
> > Yeah... That one was introduced by
> > ad5fb870c486 ("e820, efi: add ACPI 6.0 persistent memory types")
> > without any ACKs from ARM people :/
>
> Do we need to do anythign to avoid his kind of thing in future? e.g. a
> MAINTAINERS patch for the ARM EFI bits?
>
> Or do we just need to pay attention to linux-efi?

It never hit linux-efi, and I wasn't Cc'd, which means the entries
that do exist in MAINTAINERS were ignored anyway.

Because what would usually happens in that situation is that I would
ask ARM people to chime in.

It looks like all the NVDIMM changes came via Dan's nvdimm tree.


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