From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752176Ab3LKLMv (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Dec 2013 06:12:51 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:53290 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751711Ab3LKLMr (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Dec 2013 06:12:47 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:12:40 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Matt Fleming Cc: Dave Young , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, horms@verge.net.au, kexec@lists.infradead.org, greg@kroah.com, toshi.kani@hp.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/14] x86/mm: sparse warning fix for early_memremap Message-ID: <20131211111240.GE21683@pd.tnic> References: <1386582147-9802-1-git-send-email-dyoung@redhat.com> <1386582147-9802-2-git-send-email-dyoung@redhat.com> <20131209150521.GE31650@pd.tnic> <20131210021221.GA3800@dhcp-16-126.nay.redhat.com> <20131211102025.GB19196@console-pimps.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131211102025.GB19196@console-pimps.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:20:25AM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote: > This needs reviewing by at least one of the x86 folks, but it > certainly makes sense to me. Ingo told me yesterday, it makes sense too. I'd guess we can try it. FWIW, all callers of early_memremap use the memory they get remapped as normal memory so we should be safe. Maybe this whole discussion should be noted down in the commit message so that people know. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --