From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/14] x86/mm: sparse warning fix for early_memremap Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:12:40 +0100 Message-ID: <20131211111240.GE21683@pd.tnic> References: <1386582147-9802-1-git-send-email-dyoung@redhat.com> <1386582147-9802-2-git-send-email-dyoung@redhat.com> <20131209150521.GE31650@pd.tnic> <20131210021221.GA3800@dhcp-16-126.nay.redhat.com> <20131211102025.GB19196@console-pimps.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131211102025.GB19196@console-pimps.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Matt Fleming Cc: Dave Young , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, horms@verge.net.au, kexec@lists.infradead.org, greg@kroah.com, toshi.kani@hp.com List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:20:25AM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote: > This needs reviewing by at least one of the x86 folks, but it > certainly makes sense to me. Ingo told me yesterday, it makes sense too. I'd guess we can try it. FWIW, all callers of early_memremap use the memory they get remapped as normal memory so we should be safe. Maybe this whole discussion should be noted down in the commit message so that people know. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --