Re: ACPI and NUMA guys, please help to check if this patch is OK

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 23 May 2012, ethan zhao wrote:

> [PATCH] drivers/acpi/numa.c: Add localities checking code against
> proximity domains to slit_valid()
> 
>  Some buggy BIOS/ACPI will set different number to SLIT localities and
> SRAT proximity domains,
>  That will make NUMA configuration invalid and kernel will output
> information like following
> 
> NUMA:Warning:invalid distance parameter, from=-1 to=-1 distance=83
> 
> This patch adds some checking code to slit_valid() function in order
> to check theSLIT localities
> count against SRAT proximity domains number and give clear information
> about ACPI bug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: ethan.zhao <ethan.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>

There's nothing in the ACPI spec that prohibits this and the result is 
non-fatal (it only emits a warning of the mismatch), so this patch is 
unnecessary.
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