From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Hansen Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 07/10] acpi/hmat: Register processor domain to its memory Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 14:11:10 -0800 Message-ID: <9ab5d6ba-4cb6-a6f1-894d-d79b77c8bc21@intel.com> References: <20190214171017.9362-1-keith.busch@intel.com> <20190214171017.9362-8-keith.busch@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Keith Busch Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , ACPI Devel Maling List , Linux Memory Management List , Linux API , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Dan Williams List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On 2/20/19 2:02 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/hmat/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/hmat/Kconfig >> index c9637e2e7514..08e972ead159 100644 >> --- a/drivers/acpi/hmat/Kconfig >> +++ b/drivers/acpi/hmat/Kconfig >> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ >> config ACPI_HMAT >> bool "ACPI Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table Support" >> depends on ACPI_NUMA >> + select HMEM_REPORTING > If you want to do this here, I'm not sure that defining HMEM_REPORTING > as a user-selectable option is a good idea. In particular, I don't > really think that setting ACPI_HMAT without it makes a lot of sense. > Apart from this, the patch looks reasonable to me. I guess the question is whether we would want to allow folks to consume the HMAT inside the kernel while not reporting it out via HMEM_REPORTING. We have some in-kernel users of the HMAT lined up like mitigations for memory-side caches. It's certainly possible that folks would want to consume those mitigations without anything in sysfs. They might not even want or need NUMA support itself, for instance. So, what should we do? config HMEM_REPORTING bool # no user-visible prompt default y if ACPI_HMAT So folks can override in their .config, but they don't see a prompt?