From: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memmap: Parse "Reserved" together with "reserved"
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 15:31:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170426073148.GA7367@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170426072846.GA7344@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com>
On 04/26/17 at 03:28pm, Dave Young wrote:
> On 04/26/17 at 08:22am, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > For x86 with recent kernel after
> > > commit 640e1b38b0 ("x86/boot/e820: Basic cleanup of e820.c")
> > > change "reserved" to "Reserved" in /sys firmware memmap and /proc/iomem.
> > >
> > > So here, we add handling for that too.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
> > >
> > > ---
> > > kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c | 2 ++
> > > kexec/arch/ia64/kexec-ia64.c | 2 ++
> > > kexec/arch/mips/kexec-mips.c | 2 ++
> > > kexec/firmware_memmap.c | 2 ++
> > > 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> > I'd rather fix the bug I introduced and undo the reserved->Reserved string change
>
> This patch parses both 'reserved' and 'Reserved' it should be fine, but
> reverting the change in kernel sounds better..
Hmm, after press sending I noticed old kexec-tools with new kernel, it
is still a problem, so we'd better to revert the kernel changes.
>
> > in e820.c: I didn't realize that it's exposed in sysfs and had quasi-ABI
> > consequences for kexec.
> >
> > Agreed?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ingo
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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>
> Thanks
> Dave
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-26 0:55 [PATCH] memmap: Parse "Reserved" together with "reserved" Yinghai Lu
2017-04-26 6:01 ` Dave Young
2017-04-26 6:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-04-26 7:28 ` Dave Young
2017-04-26 7:31 ` Dave Young [this message]
2017-04-26 10:49 ` Simon Horman
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