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

[Dave Hansen]

On 6/7/19 1:03 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
>> 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?

Probably not.

I'm just trying to think of ways that we can debug systems where someone
"loses" a bunch of memory, especially if they're moving from an old
kernel to a new one with these patches.  From their perspective, they
just lost a bunch of expensive memory.

Do we owe a pr_info(), perhaps?  Or even a /proc/meminfo entry for how
much memory these devices own?