Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc/pseries: read the lpar name from the firmware

[Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>]

Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> writes:
> On 07/12/2021, 15:32:39, Nathan Lynch wrote:
>> Is there a reasonable fallback for VMs where this parameter doesn't
>> exist? PowerVM partitions should always have it, but what do we want the
>> behavior to be on other hypervisors?
>
> In that case, there is no value displayed in the /proc/powerpc/lparcfg and
> the lparstat -i command will fall back to the device tree value. I can't
> see any valid reason to report the value defined in the device tree
> here.

Here's a valid reason :-)

lparstat isn't the only possible consumer of the interface, and the
'ibm,partition-name' property and the dynamic system parameter clearly
serve a common purpose. 'ibm,partition-name' is provided by qemu.

In any case, the function should not print an error when the return
value is -3 (parameter not supported).