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[173.79.60.52]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id af79cd13be357-937010c3785sm100435385a.2.2026.08.17.07.42.02 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:42:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:42:00 -0400 From: Gregory Price To: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , Mike Rapoport , Pasha Tatashin , Alexander Graf , Andrew Morton , David Hildenbrand , Lorenzo Stoakes , "Liam R. Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Suren Baghdasaryan , Michal Hocko , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ard Biesheuvel , Ilias Apalodimas , Rob Herring , Saravana Kannan , Arnd Bergmann , Baoquan He , x86@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] kho: rename "scratch" to "bootmem" Message-ID: References: <20260811162642.3504565-1-pratyush@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260811162642.3504565-1-pratyush@kernel.org> X-Rspam-User: X-Stat-Signature: n1nxdnxkjt3d7iuiwkatbb73qcd7g3o6 X-Rspamd-Server: rspam09 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 3950380005 X-HE-Tag: 1786977724-648445 X-HE-Meta: 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 Boco31qU 8lxn/0WQV+F7AQ1uG9i6cBd2EhNPnLZJssbQ3Li2DXf+u291AVQOCrMPobE4pXt/2grCYX5BKO/+R438M4nbCaIOrbFnp30ddD3LaMTs1P5MMXwc4VXIcTzy+Vijl5XPLtaQZo9APH6GSr+pM/3ci2pSaDqcds/Jg2IzdArDRLOdw6vvgIBjiZWTv9FeV+u9cvuCgC+dbpGloqvLGcrVy4UChzqiDEMb1IHM89nd60Z4m9jmOGyyOQ5dbPIVnfLAzkPk77bQYeASonWY4ORF+cslnnEJ/TFEaCA1HZM2xAA9a/M2gLOdAQTinfvfSrwcw2T3RGvdjUzA7GEiV/6xJcfT5Xxhsk52f6giD Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 06:26:36PM +0200, Pratyush Yadav wrote: > From: "Pratyush Yadav (Google)" > > The term "KHO scratch" is vague and overloaded. It does not accurately > describe what the memory is for. This was discussed previously at [0]. > The conclusion was to rename "KHO scratch" to "KHO bootmem", since this > is memory passed by the previous kernel for early boot allocations. > This seems like a lot of churn to just rename some stuff, especially for a term "scratch" which is very much understood to mean "temporary working memory region" in common computing parlance. The boot param name change would also cause breakage for existing systems that update and depend on the scratch parameter. Is there a non-verbiage reason to justify these changes? Living with "scratch" seems better than potentially breaking folks. ~Gregory