Re: [PATCH 2/2] sparc32: tidy up ramdisk memory reservation

Sam Ravnborg
2018-08-03T20:18:22Z

Hi Mike.

On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 02:53:53PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> The detection and reservation of ramdisk memory were separated to allow
> bootmem bitmap initialization after the ramdisk boundaries are detected.
> Since the bootmem initialization is removed, the reservation of ramdisk
> memory can be done immediately after its boundaries are found.

When touching this area could you look
at introducing a find_ramdisk() function like
we do for sparc64?
It is always nice when the codebases look alike.
Then you could combine your simplification
with some refactoring that further increases
readability.

See:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/151194/
for my attempt from long time ago.

Sam