On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 07:49:14PM +0000, Moore, Robert wrote: > Are there any actual memory leaks, or this a consequence of the number of > sockets?
It is a consequence of the number of sockets. It is not an actual memory leak. Thanks. > > -----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 */ > > > > > > -- > -- Russ Anderson, SuperDome Flex Linux Kernel Group Manager HPE - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly SGI) [email protected] _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list [email protected] https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm
