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ACPI: PRM: Reduce unnecessary printing to avoid user confusion
authorZhu Qiyu <qiyuzhu2@amd.com>
Fri, 4 Jul 2025 01:41:04 +0000 (01:41 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:25:53 +0000 (16:25 +0200)
commitf8f9e847b7b8fc56838e855074d4bbfc06534645
tree2a8c1ac7dd6335607d2a16835012e3b56628d202
parent695de25029c93a256d561ed0068e43c921404eaa
ACPI: PRM: Reduce unnecessary printing to avoid user confusion

[ Upstream commit 3db5648c4d608b5483470efc1da9780b081242dd ]

Commit 088984c8d54c ("ACPI: PRM: Find EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME block for PRM
handler and context") introduced non-essential printing "Failed to find
VA for GUID: xxxx, PA: 0x0" which may confuse users to think that
something wrong is going on while it is not the case.

According to the PRM Spec Section 4.1.2 [1], both static data buffer
address and ACPI parameter buffer address may be NULL if they are not
needed, so there is no need to print out the "Failed to find VA ... "
in those cases.

Link: https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/Platform%20Runtime%20Mechanism%20-%20with%20legal%20notice.pdf
Signed-off-by: Zhu Qiyu <qiyuzhu2@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250704014104.82524-1-qiyuzhu2@amd.com
[ rjw: Edits in new comments, subject and changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/acpi/prmt.c