Re: [PATCH] ACPI: PPTT: Inform user that table offset used for Physical processor node ID

From: Hanjun Guo
Date: Thu Apr 02 2020 - 09:24:48 EST


On 2020/4/2 20:22, 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@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#m0ec18637d8586f832084a8a6af22580e6174669a
>
> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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");
> return ACPI_PTR_DIFF(cpu_node, table);
> }
> pr_warn_once("PPTT table found, but unable to locate core %d (%d)\n",

Looks good to me,

Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@xxxxxxxxxx>