On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 07:15 +0000, Ocean HY1 He wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Verma, Vishal L <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2018 1:12 AM
> > To: Williams, Dan J <[email protected]>;
> > [email protected];
> > [email protected]; Jiang, Dave <[email protected]>; [email protected];
> > [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; linux-
> > [email protected]; Ocean HY1 He <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [External] Re: [PATCH] ACPI: nfit: return -ENODEV if fail to find
> > NFIT at
> > startup
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2018-08-03 at 05:39 -0400, Ocean He wrote:
> > > From: Ocean He <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > In the beginning of acpi_nfit_add, if fail to find NFIT table then
> > > should
> > > return -ENODEV, instead of 0.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ocean He <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c b/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c
> > > index 7c47900..1790d7c 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c
> > > @@ -3355,7 +3355,7 @@ static int acpi_nfit_add(struct acpi_device
> > > *adev)
> > > if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
> > > /* This is ok, we could have an nvdimm hotplugged
> > > later */
> > > dev_dbg(dev, "failed to find NFIT at startup\n");
> > > - return 0;
> > > + return -ENODEV;
> >
> > Hm, the comment directly above this says this is ok..
> > Has this caused any problems in practice?
> >
>
> Thanks for your comments. After going through related codes and some test, I
> am
> now thinking it's right to keep "return 0" if NFIT not found at boot time.
>
> Per chapter 9.20.2 NVDIMM Root Device in ACPI 6.2 spec:
> The NVDIMM root device is represented by an ACPI namespace device with a _HID
> of "ACPI0012". This device allows the OS to trigger enumeration of NVDIMMs
> through NFIT at boot time and re-enumeration at root level via the _FIT
> method
> during runtime.
>
> The acpi_nfit_driver is registered to ACPI bus to support "ACPI0012".
> The acpi_nfit_driver.acpi_nfit_add is used to enumerate NVDIMMs through NFIT
> at boot time; The acpi_nfit_driver.acpi_nfit_notify is used to enumerate
> NVDIMMs during runtime.
>
> In my Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 which support NVDIMMs, If I remove
> all NVDIMMs, the NFIT table is gone after system boot up. If keep "return 0"
> in acpi_nfit_add, then acpi_nfit_driver would still be attached to
> "ACPI0012".
> Once a NVDIMM is hotplugged into system during runtime, then
> acpi_nfit_driver.acpi_nfit_notify can be called to enumerate NVDIMMs (I could
> not do hotplug test because firmware doesn't support).
> Otherwise, "return -ENODEV" would block NVDIMM enumeration during runtime.
>
> How do you think to adjust annotation as following?
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c b/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c
> index 7c47900..1673161 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c
> @@ -3353,7 +3353,13 @@ static int acpi_nfit_add(struct acpi_device *adev)
>
> status = acpi_get_table(ACPI_SIG_NFIT, 0, &tbl);
> if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
> - /* This is ok, we could have an nvdimm hotplugged later */
> + /* The NVDIMM root device allows OS to trigger enumeration of
> + * NVDIMMs through NFIT at boot time and re-enumeration at
> + * root level via the _FIT method during runtime.
> + * This is ok to return 0 here, we could have an nvdimm
> + * hotplugged later and evaluate _FIT method which returns
> + * data in the format of a series of NFIT Structures.
> + */
> dev_dbg(dev, "failed to find NFIT at startup\n");
> return 0;
> }
Yes, this sounds reasonable to me.
Thanks,
-Vishal
>
> Ocean.
>
> > > }
> > >
> > > rc = devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, acpi_nfit_put_table,
> > > tbl);
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