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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>,
	Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/13] android: persistent_ram: handle reserving and mapping memory
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 14:08:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120307220811.GB16652@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331157503-3413-9-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org>

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 01:58:18PM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> From: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
> 
> Replace the ioremapped memory passed in from the drivers with
> a memblock_reserve and vmap.  Adds a new function,
> persistent_ram_early_init, designed to be called from the machine
> init_early callback, that calls memblock_remove and saves the
> provided persistent ram area layout.
> 
> Drivers only pass in their struct device * and ecc settings.
> Locating and mapping the memory is now handled entirely within
> persistent_ram.
> 
> Also, convert ram_console to the new persistent_ram_init
> parameters that only take a struct device * and ecc settings.
> 
> CC: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> CC: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>
> Change-Id: Ibc87ec27b70ed1c928eaa487503469e199973058
> Change-Id: I12b018381a2ed5965a8a4b0da40c3e640f92b6cf
> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
> [jstultz: Fix pr_info casting issues on 64bit, folded two
> patches as the build breaks if they are apart. Also replaced
> phys_to_page() w/ pfn_to_page(addr>>PAGE_SHIFT), as phys_to_page
> is only on a few arches.]

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thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-07 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-07 21:58 [PATCH 00/13] staging: Android updates John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 01/13] android: lowmemorykiller: Fix warning on 64bit John Stultz
2012-03-07 22:04   ` Greg KH
2012-03-07 22:24     ` John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 02/13] android: ram_console: set CON_ANYTIME console flag John Stultz
2012-03-07 22:07   ` Greg KH
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 03/13] android: ram_console: move footer strings John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 04/13] android: ram_console: drop early buffer support John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 05/13] android: ram_console: drop verbose ram_console support John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 06/13] android: ram_console: split out persistent ram John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 07/13] android: persistent_ram: refactor ecc support John Stultz
2012-03-07 22:21   ` Daniel Walker
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 08/13] android: persistent_ram: handle reserving and mapping memory John Stultz
2012-03-07 22:08   ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-03-07 22:16     ` John Stultz
2012-03-08  1:46       ` Greg KH
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 09/13] android: persistent_ram: make persistent_ram_write atomic John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 10/13] android: persistent_ram: add notrace to persistent_ram_write John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 11/13] android: persistent_trace: ftrace into persistent_ram John Stultz
2012-03-07 22:10   ` Greg KH
2012-03-07 22:40     ` John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 12/13] android: staging: ram_console: fix crash in ram_console_late_init John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 13/13] android: ram_console: honor dmesg_restrict John Stultz
2012-03-07 22:10   ` Greg KH
2012-03-07 22:11 ` [PATCH 00/13] staging: Android updates Greg KH

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