Are there any actual memory leaks, or this a consequence of the number of sockets?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Travis [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2018 12:56 PM > To: Moore, Robert <[email protected]>; Schmauss, Erik > <[email protected]>; Wysocki, Rafael J > <[email protected]>; Len Brown <[email protected]> > Cc: Russ Anderson <[email protected]>; Dimitri Sivanich > <[email protected]>; Ross Zwisler <[email protected]>; > Williams, Dan J <[email protected]>; Verma, Vishal L > <[email protected]>; Jiang, Dave <[email protected]>; linux- > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected] > Subject: [PATCH 1/1] x86, pmem, acpi: Remove excessive ACPI Large > Reference Count warnings > > With the Intel BIOS support for 8 processor sockets with a full > complement of NVDIMMS potentially installable, and there are empty > sockets without NVDIMMS, there is an extremely large amount of the > following warnings: > > ACPI Warning: Large Reference Count (0x1001) in object ffff99453fc71750, > Type=0x0A > > On a 4 socket system with 4 NVDIMMs there were over 6000 of these > warning messages and it has been seem on systems from 4 to 32 sockets. > > Through some guidance from the BIOS developers and testing, it appears > that simply bumping up the threshold for warnings from 0x1000 to 0x2000 > eliminates these messages. Changing them to be ACPI DEBUG messages, or > even removing them are other options, but it would then defeat the > purpose of the warnings as the problem would effectively be hidden. > > Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich <[email protected]> > Tested-by: Russ Anderson <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <[email protected]> > --- > include/acpi/acconfig.h | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > --- linux-4.12.orig/include/acpi/acconfig.h > +++ linux-4.12/include/acpi/acconfig.h > @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ > > /* Maximum object reference count (detects object deletion issues) */ > > -#define ACPI_MAX_REFERENCE_COUNT 0x1000 > +#define ACPI_MAX_REFERENCE_COUNT 0x2000 > > /* Default page size for use in mapping memory for operation regions */ > > > -- _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list [email protected] https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm
