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Date:      Wed, 8 May 2013 23:07:34 +0200
From:      Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r250339 - head/sys/x86/acpica
Message-ID:  <CAJ-FndCOMs=7CUEzD1%2B5B=qMtq7PS41FFeGNmCDPw_8yts%2BvXA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201305081653.33646.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <201305072249.r47MnvrO009846@svn.freebsd.org> <201305081201.16405.jhb@freebsd.org> <CAJ-FndD4=5f3ydSuRLqL%2BcqTTDfGyjXAxaWTMQOWLfK29Z8RUw@mail.gmail.com> <201305081653.33646.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:53 PM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 08, 2013 2:21:12 pm Attilio Rao wrote:
>> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 6:01 PM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > On Tuesday, May 07, 2013 6:49:57 pm Attilio Rao wrote:
>> >> Author: attilio
>> >> Date: Tue May  7 22:49:56 2013
>> >> New Revision: 250339
>> >> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/250339
>> >>
>> >> Log:
>> >>   Add functions to do ACPI System Locality Information Table parsing
>> >>   and printing at boot.
>> >>   For reference on table informations and purposes please review ACPI specs.
>> >>
>> >>   Sponsored by:       EMC / Isilon storage division
>> >>   Obtained from:      jeff
>> >>   Reviewed by:        jhb (earlier version)
>> >
>> > Eh, I don't recall reviewing this.  However, acpidump already dumps this
>> > table, and we should dump tables via acpidump, not in dmesg.
>>
>> Now that I read better this patch is based upon a patch you submitted
>> originally (see the private thread NUMA WIP).
>> We already print some useful ACPI table information at boot really
>> (APIC ACPI table case) and this is only printed out when having
>> MAXMEMDOM > 1. Finally I have also sent you this patch and you didn't
>> object.
>
> Humm, that was in an old thread, and I never responded to say "ok" to
> this.
>
> However, the patch I posted in that thread is the patch to dump the SLIT
> in acpidump and it was comitted back in r241198.  That is the place to dump
> these tables, not in dmesg.  We do not dump the raw contents of any other
> ACPI tables in dmesg, and have actively moved other tables out to userland
> (e.g. $PIR is dumped via a userland tool only).
>
>> However if you really dislike it I can print under bootverbose maybe?
>
> No, it does not belong in dmesg at all.  Code to use its contents and honor
> it when setting the domain lists would be fine :), but printing it when you
> can more easily get it via acpidump -t is just clutter.

Reverted in r 250389.

Attilio


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