linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] acpi/hmat: ACPI_HMAT_MEMORY_PD

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Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0jXiuA3HGPCY3vbH8_53WP-6G=bVJ8SPprCDDg9MoyAsQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 2 Sep 2019 23:28:50 +0200
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Daniel Black <daniel@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        "open list:ACPI" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi/hmat: ACPI_HMAT_MEMORY_PD_VALID is deprecated in ACPI-6.3

On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 6:24 AM Daniel Black <daniel@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> ACPI-6.3 corresponds to when hmat revision was bumped from
> 1 to 2. In this version ACPI_HMAT_MEMORY_PD_VALID was
> deprecated and made reserved.
>
> As such in revision 2+ we shouldn't be testing this flag.
>
> This is as per ACPI-6.3, 5.2.27.3, Table 5-145
> "Memory Proximity Domain Attributes Structure"
> for Flags.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Black <daniel@...ux.ibm.com>

Keith, any comments?

> ---
>  drivers/acpi/hmat/hmat.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/hmat/hmat.c b/drivers/acpi/hmat/hmat.c
> index 96b7d39a97c6..e938e34673d9 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/hmat/hmat.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/hmat/hmat.c
> @@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ static int __init hmat_parse_proximity_domain(union acpi_subtable_headers *heade
>                 pr_info("HMAT: Memory Flags:%04x Processor Domain:%d Memory Domain:%d\n",
>                         p->flags, p->processor_PD, p->memory_PD);
>
> -       if (p->flags & ACPI_HMAT_MEMORY_PD_VALID) {
> +       if (p->flags & ACPI_HMAT_MEMORY_PD_VALID && hmat_revision == 1) {
>                 target = find_mem_target(p->memory_PD);
>                 if (!target) {
>                         pr_debug("HMAT: Memory Domain missing from SRAT\n");
> --
> 2.21.0
>