linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] acpi/hmat: Skip publishing target info for nodes with no online memory

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Message-ID: <CAPcyv4iLyHLqRD4E9HHx+pcRVHkF8zYKjCBE9YDQOiZTQVyo0g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 12 Feb 2020 08:29:20 -0800
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] acpi/hmat: Skip publishing target info for nodes with
 no online memory

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 2:05 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net> wrote:
>
> On Monday, August 12, 2019 10:59:58 AM CEST Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 4:30 PM Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.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@...ux.intel.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>
> > > Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.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.
> >
>
> And all patches in the series have been applied.

I want to flag this patch (commit 5c7ed4385424 "HMAT: Skip publishing
target info for nodes with no online memory")
for -stable to cleanup a spurious WARN_ON:

WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 1 at drivers/base/node.c:191 node_set_perf_attrs+0x90/0xa0
CPU: 7 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.3.6-100.fc29.x86_64 #1
RIP: 0010:node_set_perf_attrs+0x90/0xa0
Call Trace:
 ? do_early_param+0x8e/0x8e
 hmat_init+0x2ff/0x443
 ? hmat_parse_subtable+0x55a/0x55a
 ? do_early_param+0x8e/0x8e
 do_one_initcall+0x46/0x1f4

Do you mind if I forward to stable@, or do you collect ACPI patches to
send to stable@?