Re: [PATCH v2 02/22] x86/numa: Add 'nohmat' option

[Randy Dunlap]

On 7/12/20 9:26 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> Disable parsing of the HMAT for debug, to workaround broken platform
> instances, or cases where it is otherwise not wanted.
> 
> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/numa.c       |    2 ++
>  drivers/acpi/numa/hmat.c |    8 +++++++-
>  include/acpi/acpi_numa.h |    8 ++++++++
>  3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
> index ee24646dc44e..44fdf06d497e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
> @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ static __init int numa_setup(char *opt)
>  		return numa_emu_cmdline(opt + 5);
>  	if (!strncmp(opt, "noacpi", 6))
>  		disable_srat();
> +	if (!strncmp(opt, "nohmat", 6))
> +		disable_hmat();
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  early_param("numa", numa_setup);

Please add that to
Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst.

thanks.
-- 
~Randy