From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
torvalds@osdl.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix left over EFI cache mapping problems
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:05:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080218140546.GA462@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080218112621.GA24147@one.firstfloor.org>
* Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> > UEFI specification 2.1 (section 6.2, page 124) that the
> > NumberOfPages (num_pages) of EFI_MEMORY_DESCRIPTOR
> > (efi_memory_desc_t) must be "Number of 4KB pages in the memory
> > region". So we need not worry about potential EFI_PAGE_SHIFT
> > changes.
>
> Then it would be cleaner to just use PAGE_SIZE in the x86 specific EFI
> code imho.
(as i suggested in the mail Ying replied to.)
But ... as long as ia64 uses EFI too i dont mind if it's using
EFI_PAGE_SHIFT consistently, even in the arch/x86-only files.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-18 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-14 13:13 [PATCH] Fix left over EFI cache mapping problems Andi Kleen
2008-02-14 16:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-14 17:16 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-14 18:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-14 21:42 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-14 22:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-14 23:01 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-15 2:52 ` Huang, Ying
2008-02-15 8:55 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-15 9:16 ` Huang, Ying
2008-02-15 4:48 ` Huang, Ying
2008-02-15 5:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-15 6:24 ` Huang, Ying
2008-02-15 7:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-15 7:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-15 7:32 ` Huang, Ying
2008-02-18 1:53 ` Huang, Ying
2008-02-18 11:26 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-18 14:05 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-02-15 8:48 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-15 9:21 ` Huang, Ying
2008-02-15 9:43 ` Andi Kleen
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