Re: [PATCH v4 02/10] acpi/numa/hmat: Skip publishing target info for nodes with no online memory

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 8:33 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There are multiple scenarios where the HMAT may contain information
> about proximity domains that are not currently online. Rather than fail
> to report any HMAT data just elide those offline domains.
>
> If and when those domains are later onlined they can be added to the
> HMEM reporting at that point.
>
> This was found while testing EFI_MEMORY_SP support which reserves
> "specific purpose" memory from the general allocation pool. If that
> reservation results in an empty numa-node then the node is not marked
> online leading a spurious:
>
>     "acpi/hmat: Ignoring HMAT: Invalid table"
>
> ...result for HMAT parsing.
>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/acpi/numa/hmat.c |   14 +++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/numa/hmat.c b/drivers/acpi/numa/hmat.c
> index 96b7d39a97c6..2c220cb7b620 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/numa/hmat.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/numa/hmat.c
> @@ -96,9 +96,6 @@ static __init void alloc_memory_target(unsigned int mem_pxm)
>  {
>         struct memory_target *target;
>
> -       if (pxm_to_node(mem_pxm) == NUMA_NO_NODE)
> -               return;
> -
>         target = find_mem_target(mem_pxm);
>         if (target)
>                 return;
> @@ -588,6 +585,17 @@ static __init void hmat_register_targets(void)
>         struct memory_target *target;
>
>         list_for_each_entry(target, &targets, node) {
> +               int nid = pxm_to_node(target->memory_pxm);
> +
> +               /*
> +                * Skip offline nodes. This can happen when memory
> +                * marked EFI_MEMORY_SP, "specific purpose", is applied
> +                * to all the memory in a promixity domain leading to
> +                * the node being marked offline / unplugged, or if
> +                * memory-only "hotplug" node is offline.
> +                */
> +               if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE || !node_online(nid))
> +                       continue;
>                 hmat_register_target_initiators(target);
>                 hmat_register_target_perf(target);
>         }
>