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

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Message-ID: <CAPcyv4i2gxocbT9nB5k9+Qea5WftJLSoArXjymkwyZ=+8GBFcQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 28 Oct 2019 20:06:58 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        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 Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 8:13 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, October 22, 2019 6:48:12 PM CET Dan Williams wrote:
> > 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.
>
> In the face of the lack of responses here, I think I will apply this patch
> alone and expose a stable branch containing it in case somebody else wants
> to pull it in.

Ok.

x86 folks, any concerns about Rafael taking the whole lot?