Laurent Dufour <lduf...@linux.ibm.com> writes: > On 07/12/2021, 15:32:39, Nathan Lynch wrote: >> Is there a reasonable fallback for VMs where this parameter doesn't >> exist? PowerVM partitions should always have it, but what do we want the >> behavior to be on other hypervisors? > > In that case, there is no value displayed in the /proc/powerpc/lparcfg and > the lparstat -i command will fall back to the device tree value. I can't > see any valid reason to report the value defined in the device tree > here.
Here's a valid reason :-) lparstat isn't the only possible consumer of the interface, and the 'ibm,partition-name' property and the dynamic system parameter clearly serve a common purpose. 'ibm,partition-name' is provided by qemu. In any case, the function should not print an error when the return value is -3 (parameter not supported).
