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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Zhang, Jonathan Zhixiong" <zjzhang@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	fu.wei@linaro.org, al.stone@linaro.org, tony.luck@gmail.com,
	rjw@rjwysocki.net, lenb@kernel.org, ying.huang@intel.com,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 4/4] acpi, apei: use EFI memmap to map GHES memory
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 10:27:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150613082750.GA3470@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <557B6ED9.3020706@codeaurora.org>

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 04:44:25PM -0700, Zhang, Jonathan Zhixiong wrote:
> Since such function is only needed for APEI functionality, at least as
> of today, I will name it arch_apei_get_mem_attribute().

Why?

It can be extended to be used generically too, no? Come to think of it,
the different arches should already have a way to tell you with what mem
attributes a physical address is mapped, no?

IOW, such functionality should be already present, you'd only have to
find it and use it.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
--

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-13  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-11 18:25 [PATCH V3 0/4] map GHES memory region with EFI memory map Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang
2015-06-11 18:25 ` [PATCH V3 1/4] x86: acpi: define uncached page flag Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang
2015-06-12  7:52   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-06-12 23:49     ` Zhang, Jonathan Zhixiong
2015-06-11 18:25 ` [PATCH V3 2/4] arm64: " Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang
2015-06-11 18:25 ` [PATCH V3 3/4] efi: x86: rearrange efi_mem_attributes() Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang
2015-06-11 18:26 ` [PATCH V3 4/4] acpi, apei: use EFI memmap to map GHES memory Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang
2015-06-12 16:29   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-12 23:44     ` Zhang, Jonathan Zhixiong
2015-06-13  8:27       ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2015-06-15 14:15         ` Matt Fleming
2015-06-15 14:59           ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-22  5:11             ` Matt Fleming
2015-06-23  9:50               ` Matt Fleming
     [not found] <E1ZG8Pn-0002uB-2C@feisty.vs19.net>
2015-07-21  0:22 ` Zhang, Jonathan Zhixiong

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