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Date:   Thu, 2 Apr 2020 09:54:25 -0500
From:   Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>
To:     John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>, rjw@...ysocki.net,
        lenb@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        sudeep.holla@....com, linuxarm@...wei.com, wanghuiqiang@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: PPTT: Inform user that table offset used for
 Physical processor node ID

Hi,

On 4/2/20 9:51 AM, John Garry wrote:
> On 02/04/2020 14:55, Jeremy Linton wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 4/2/20 7:22 AM, John Garry wrote:
>>> If the the Processor ID valid is not set for a Physical Processor 
>>> Package
>>> node, then the node table offset is used as a substitute. As such, we
>>> may get info like this from sysfs:
>>>
>>> root@(none)$ pwd
>>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology
>>> root@(none)$ more physical_package_id
>>> 56
>>>
>>> Inform the user of this in the bootlog, as it is much less than 
>>> ideal, and
>>> they can remedy this in their FW.
>>>
>>> This topic was originally discussed in:
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/c325cfe2-7dbf-e341-7f0f-081b6545e890@huawei.com/T/#m0ec18637d8586f832084a8a6af22580e6174669a 
>>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/pptt.c b/drivers/acpi/pptt.c
>>> index 4ae93350b70d..b4ed3c818e00 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/acpi/pptt.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/pptt.c
>>> @@ -515,6 +515,8 @@ static int topology_get_acpi_cpu_tag(struct 
>>> acpi_table_header *table,
>>>           if (level == 0 ||
>>>               cpu_node->flags & ACPI_PPTT_ACPI_PROCESSOR_ID_VALID)
>>>               return cpu_node->acpi_processor_id;
>>> +        if (level == PPTT_ABORT_PACKAGE)
>>> +            pr_notice_once("Physical package node Processor ID valid 
>>> not set, will use table offset as substitute\n");
> 
> Hi Jeremy,
> 
>>
>> What happens in the find_acpi_cpu_topology_hetro_id() case, if the 
>> last IDENTICAL node isn't a socket/etc. Are we expecting to warn of a 
>> missing processor container there as well?
> 
> ok, I could just use this then:
> 
> if (flags & ACPI_PPTT_PHYSCIAL_PACKAGE)
>      pr_notice_once("Physical package node Processor ID ...")

I think that is a better plan.

> 
> As I recall, this tag for hetro id is not exposed to userspace (yet).

Correct.