Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] ACPI HMAT memory sysfs representation | From | Dave Hansen <> | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:42:23 -0800 |
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On 11/23/18 1:13 PM, Dan Williams wrote: >> A new system call makes total sense to me. I have the same concern >> about the completeness of what's exposed in sysfs, I just don't see a >> _route_ to completeness with sysfs itself. Thus, the minimalist >> approach as a first step. > Outside of platform-firmware-id to Linux-numa-node-id what other > userspace API infrastructure does the kernel need to provide? It seems > userspace enumeration of memory attributes is fully enabled once the > firmware-to-Linux identification is established.
It would be nice not to have each app need to know about each specific platform's firmware.
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