Re: [patch 2/3] Introduce BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE

[Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>]

Hi,

* Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> [2007-10-16 20:08]:
> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 18:28 +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > 
> > @@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ static int __init smp_scan_config (unsig
> >                         smp_found_config = 1;
> >                         printk(KERN_INFO "found SMP MP-table at %08lx\n",
> >                                                 virt_to_phys(mpf));
> > -                       reserve_bootmem(virt_to_phys(mpf), PAGE_SIZE);
> > +                       reserve_bootmem(virt_to_phys(mpf), PAGE_SIZE, 0);
> >                         if (mpf->mpf_physptr) {
> >                                 /* 
> 
> Could you give all of these 0's a name?  I really hate seeing random
> magic numbers in these things.  0 completely kills the ability of
> someone to read the code and figure out what it is trying to do without
> going and looking at reserve_bootmem().

Of course I can replace that zeroes with something like BOOTMEM_DEFAULT.

> Or, alternatively, do something like this:
> 
> -extern void reserve_bootmem(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size);

Andi was against more bootmem functions. ;)


Thanks,
   Bernhard