linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] powerpc/pseries: read the lpar name from the firmware

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Wed, 12 Jan 2022 14:10:15 +0100
From:   Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Michael Ellerman <michaele@....ibm.com>,
        Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@...ux.ibm.com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Nathan Lynch <nathanl@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] powerpc/pseries: read the lpar name from the firmware

On 11/01/2022, 23:40:27, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@...ux.ibm.com> writes:
>> On 1/6/22 8:13 AM, Laurent Dufour wrote:
>>> The LPAR name may be changed after the LPAR has been started in the HMC.
>>> In that case lparstat command is not reporting the updated value because it
>>> reads it from the device tree which is read at boot time.
>>>
>>> However this value could be read from RTAS.
>>>
>>> Adding this value in the /proc/powerpc/lparcfg output allows to read the
>>> updated value.
>>>
>>> However the hypervisor, like Qemu/KVM, may not support this RTAS
>>> parameter. In that case the value reported in lparcfg is read from the
>>> device tree and so is not updated accordingly.
>>>
>>> Cc: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@...ux.ibm.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.ibm.com>
>>
>> My only nit would be that in general for consistency with other function names
>> _RTAS_ and _DT_ should be lowercase. Seeing as they are statically scoped within
>> lparcfg.c maybe its ok. Otherwise,
> 
> Yeah I agree, I changed them to lower case when applying.

Thanks Michael and Tyrel.