From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751134AbWHBEVi (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 00:21:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751135AbWHBEVh (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 00:21:37 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:39042 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751134AbWHBEVh (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 00:21:37 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 8 of 13] Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address space for hypervisors Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 06:21:22 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Andrew Morton , Xen-devel , Ian Pratt , Linux Kernel , Chris Wright , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , Christoph Lameter References: <0adfc39039c79e4f4121.1154462446@ezr> <1154490840.2570.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1154490840.2570.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608020621.22827.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I think you misunderstand the purpose of parse_early_param? It is > designed to be called directly by the arch at some point (it is > idempotent, so the second call in init/main.c does nothing if the arch > has called it). ie. in i386, it replaces parse_cmdline_early(). Ah I didn't realize that. But why is there a second call in init/main.c? Looks like a big hack to me. Someone was too lazy to add it to all architectures? -Andi