Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] powerpc/pseries: read the lpar name from the firmware

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:40:27 +1100

Tyrel Datwyler <[email-masked]> writes:
> On 1/6/22 8:13 AM, Laurent Dufour wrote:
>> The LPAR name may be changed after the LPAR has been started in the HMC.
>> In that case lparstat command is not reporting the updated value because it
>> reads it from the device tree which is read at boot time.
>> 
>> However this value could be read from RTAS.
>> 
>> Adding this value in the /proc/powerpc/lparcfg output allows to read the
>> updated value.
>> 
>> However the hypervisor, like Qemu/KVM, may not support this RTAS
>> parameter. In that case the value reported in lparcfg is read from the
>> device tree and so is not updated accordingly.
>> 
>> Cc: Nathan Lynch <[email-masked]>
>> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <[email-masked]>
>
> My only nit would be that in general for consistency with other function names
> _RTAS_ and _DT_ should be lowercase. Seeing as they are statically scoped within
> lparcfg.c maybe its ok. Otherwise,

Yeah I agree, I changed them to lower case when applying.

cheers