Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] ACPI: RISCV: Enable ACPI based NUMA

From: Sunil V L
Date: Tue Apr 02 2024 - 23:54:45 EST


On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 04:57:30PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> >> If the firmware didn't provide the SRAT/SLIT on ACPI based systems, then
> >> there will be a message "Failed to initialise from firmware" from
> >> arch_acpi_numa_init(). This is not specific to RISC-V. But I am
> >> wondering why should it be pr_info instead of pr_debug.
> >>
> >
> > My understanding is maybe it just wants to expose explicit logs to
> > avoid any potential bugs from FW or Kernel.
>
> There are lots of ACPI enabled systems that aren't NUMA (single
> socket servers, desktops, laptops). Making this "pr_info()" would just
> add noise to the boot on all of those.
>
Exactly. But this is an existing pr_info message across architectures.
My suggestion is to add one more patch in this series to convert
this to pr_debug unless someone has strong reason to keep it pr_info.

Thanks,
Sunil