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From: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	dave.jiang@intel.com, Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com,
	horenchuang@bytedance.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
	lenb@kernel.org, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi/hmat,mm/memtier: always register hmat adist calculation callback
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:26:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZqlMXuBxi2oShb-u@PC2K9PVX.TheFacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878qxiowmy.fsf@yhuang6-desk2.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 03:20:37PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> writes:
> >
> > In this case, the system is configured explicitly so that kmem does not
> > manage it. In fact, some systems still cannot be managed with
> > EFI_MEMORY_SP due to hpa!=spa issues that the driver cannot manage.
> 
> Sorry, I don't understand.  IIUC, kmem.c can manage almost any memory
> range via drivers/dax/hmem.  Please check
> 
> drivers/dax/hmem/device.c
> drivers/dax/hmem/hmem.c
> 
> Could you elaborate why kmem.c doesn't work for some memory range?
> 

Sorry I misunderstood, I thought you meant the cxl+kmem/hmem subsystem
interaction and handing configuration of the CXL device over to the
kernel.

The boot parameter is not likely to be a solution for us but I will look
at it.

> > But I think a feature that worked in 5.x should work in 6.x, and right
> > now the change in node placement breaks hardware that worked with 5.x
> > which happened to have broken or missing HMAT.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-31 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-26 21:55 Gregory Price
2024-07-29  1:02 ` Huang, Ying
2024-07-29 14:22   ` Gregory Price
2024-07-30  1:12     ` Huang, Ying
2024-07-30  3:18       ` Gregory Price
2024-07-31  1:22         ` Huang, Ying
2024-07-30 19:58           ` Gregory Price
2024-07-31  7:20             ` Huang, Ying
2024-07-30 20:26               ` Gregory Price [this message]
2024-08-27 14:33           ` Gregory Price
2024-07-30  5:19       ` Gregory Price
2024-07-30  6:12         ` Gregory Price
2024-07-31  1:10         ` Huang, Ying

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