From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Yinghai <yinghai.lu@oracle.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
x86@kernel.org, Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
jkosina@novell.com
Subject: Re: [Patch 1/1] x86 efi: Fill all reserved memmap entries if add_efi_memmap specified.
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 15:49:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BFC53FF.1030106@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BFC5330.5080907@sgi.com>
On 05/25/2010 03:46 PM, Mike Travis wrote:
>
> I wondered about that. Sanitize seems to remove adjacent
> entries, etc. making the map smaller, but I couldn't detect
> any real differences (though admittedly I didn't do a byte
> by byte comparison.)
>
> But I'll submit another with that call removed.
>
Sanitize in particular tries to make sense of an otherwise-messed-up
map. This means that if we find a system where it does something
broken, we don't have a way to get the raw data to check what it did!
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-25 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-12 18:10 [Patch 1/1] x86 efi: Fill all reserved memmap entries if add_efi_memmap specified Mike Travis
2010-05-12 18:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-12 20:19 ` Yinghai
2010-05-12 21:02 ` Mike Travis
2010-05-13 21:18 ` Mike Travis
2010-05-13 21:48 ` Yinghai
2010-05-13 21:55 ` Mike Travis
2010-05-13 22:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-24 23:04 ` [Patch 1/1] x86 efi: insert add_efi_memmap entries into both e820 maps Mike Travis
2010-05-25 22:34 ` [Patch 1/1] x86 efi: Fill all reserved memmap entries if add_efi_memmap specified Mike Travis
2010-05-25 22:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-25 22:46 ` Mike Travis
2010-05-25 22:49 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-05-26 17:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-05-26 17:42 ` Mike Travis
2010-05-26 18:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-26 18:47 ` Mike Travis
2010-05-26 19:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-26 19:09 ` Mike Travis
2010-05-26 20:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-25 22:59 ` [Patch 1/1] x86 efi: Fill all reserved memmap entries if add_efi_memmap specified v2 Mike Travis
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