Re: [PATCH v3 03/10] efi: Enumerate EFI_MEMORY_SP

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 12:54 PM Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 6/7/19 12:27 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> > @@ -848,15 +848,16 @@ char * __init efi_md_typeattr_format(char *buf, size_t size,
> >       if (attr & ~(EFI_MEMORY_UC | EFI_MEMORY_WC | EFI_MEMORY_WT |
> >                    EFI_MEMORY_WB | EFI_MEMORY_UCE | EFI_MEMORY_RO |
> >                    EFI_MEMORY_WP | EFI_MEMORY_RP | EFI_MEMORY_XP |
> > -                  EFI_MEMORY_NV |
> > +                  EFI_MEMORY_NV | EFI_MEMORY_SP |
> >                    EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME | EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE))
> >               snprintf(pos, size, "|attr=0x%016llx]",
> >                        (unsigned long long)attr);
> >       else
> >               snprintf(pos, size,
> > -                      "|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s]",
> > +                      "|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s]",
> >                        attr & EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME ? "RUN" : "",
> >                        attr & EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE ? "MR" : "",
> > +                      attr & EFI_MEMORY_SP      ? "SP"  : "",
> >                        attr & EFI_MEMORY_NV      ? "NV"  : "",
> >                        attr & EFI_MEMORY_XP      ? "XP"  : "",
> >                        attr & EFI_MEMORY_RP      ? "RP"  : "",
>
> Haha, I went digging in sysfs to find out where this gets dumped out.
> The joke was on me because it seems to only go to dmesg.
>
> Separate from these patches, should we have a runtime file that dumps
> out the same info?  dmesg isn't always available, and hotplug could
> change this too, I'd imagine.

Perhaps, but I thought /proc/iomem was that runtime file. Given that
x86/Linux only seems to care about the the EFI to E820 translation of
the map and the E820 map is directly reflected in /proc/iomem, do we
need another file?