From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vgoyal@redhat.com,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Use /proc/firmware_mem for x86 (e820)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:28:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080624182817.GI5642@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1213977420-1555-3-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de>
Hi!
> This patch copies the E820 map very early, before the kernel applies various
> operations. That copy is used later to register only the BIOS-provided E820
> map later in the resource tree for /proc/firmware_mem.
It is not process related -> it should not go to /proc. Talk to Greg.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-26 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-20 15:56 Introduce userspace interface for Firmware-provided memory map Bernhard Walle
2008-06-20 15:56 ` [PATCH 1/3] Introduce /proc/firmware_mem Bernhard Walle
2008-06-20 15:56 ` [PATCH 2/3] Use /proc/firmware_mem for x86 (e820) Bernhard Walle
2008-06-24 18:28 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-06-26 8:21 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-20 15:57 ` [PATCH 3/3] Limit E820 map when a user-defined memory map is specified Bernhard Walle
2008-06-20 19:45 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-20 20:34 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-06-22 19:46 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-22 19:56 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-22 20:11 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-06-24 14:07 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-20 15:58 ` Introduce userspace interface for Firmware-provided memory map Bernhard Walle
2008-06-20 19:42 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-20 20:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-22 19:59 ` Bernhard Walle
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