Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mm: numa_memblks: Identify the accurate NUMA ID of CFMW

[Gregory Price]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 02:58:42PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:06:52 +0800 Cui Chao <cuichao1753@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > All that said, this does look harmless, and seems reasonable - but the
> > > changelog should reflect what the hardware is doing above.
> > This issue was discovered on the QEMU platform. I need to apologize for 
> > my earlier imprecise statement (claiming it was hardware instead of 
> > QEMU). My core point at the time was to emphasize that this is a problem 
> > in the general code path when facing this scenario, not a QEMU-specific 
> > emulation issue, and therefore it could theoretically affect real 
> > hardware as well. I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.
> 
> This patch doesn't sounds very urgent.  Perhaps we should do a v3 with
> updated changelog and handle that in the next -rc cycle?

Mostly QEMU just needs to add SRAT entries associated with the
CEDT/CFMWS it adds.

A system providing a CEDT/CFMWS entry without an SRAT entry is arguably
bad BIOS.

But yeah, this is not urgent.

~Gregory