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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] acpi/hmat: Skip publishing target info for nodes with no online memory
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 4:30 PM Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> wrote:
>
> From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>
> There are multiple scenarios where the HMAT may contain information
> about proximity domains that are not currently online. Rather than fail
> to report any HMAT data just elide those offline domains.
>
> If and when those domains are later onlined they can be added to the
> HMEM reporting at that point.
>
> This was found while testing EFI_MEMORY_SP support which reserves
> "specific purpose" memory from the general allocation pool. If that
> reservation results in an empty numa-node then the node is not marked
> online leading a spurious:
>
> "acpi/hmat: Ignoring HMAT: Invalid table"
>
> ...result for HMAT parsing.
>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

When you send somebody else's patches, you should sign them off as a
rule, but since you sent this one with your own R-by, I converted that
to a S-o-b.

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