linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 01/12] acpi/numa: Establish a new drivers/acpi/numa/ directory

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Date:   Tue, 22 Oct 2019 09:48:12 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        linux-efi <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 01/12] acpi/numa: Establish a new drivers/acpi/numa/ directory

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 3:02 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 11:25 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> >  On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 3:13 AM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Currently hmat.c lives under an "hmat" directory which does not enhance
> > > the description of the file. The initial motivation for giving hmat.c
> > > its own directory was to delineate it as mm functionality in contrast to
> > > ACPI device driver functionality.
> > >
> > > As ACPI continues to play an increasing role in conveying
> > > memory location and performance topology information to the OS take the
> > > opportunity to co-locate these NUMA relevant tables in a combined
> > > directory.
> > >
> > > numa.c is renamed to srat.c and moved to drivers/acpi/numa/ along with
> > > hmat.c.
> > >
> > > Cc: Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
> > > Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>
> > > Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> >
> > Please note that https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11078171/ is being
> > pushed to Linus (it is overdue anyway), so if it is pulled, there will
> > be a merge conflict with this patch.
> >
> > Respin maybe?
>
> Actually, would you mind it if I took this one into the ACPI tree right away?
>
> There's https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11198373/ queued up that,
> again, will clash with it.
>
> Also, there is the generic Initiator proximity domains series from
> Jonathan depending on it and I would like to move forward with that
> one if there are no objections.

Given Ard has acked all the EFI core and ARM changes can we proceed
with merging the EFI Specific Purpose Memory series through Rafael's
tree? It would need acks from x86 maintainers.