From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753772Ab2LFA4o (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2012 19:56:44 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:42068 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752291Ab2LFA4n (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2012 19:56:43 -0500 Message-ID: <50BFED3C.1080601@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:56:28 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yinghai Lu CC: Bjorn Helgaas , Matthew Garrett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: Use PCI ROMs from EFI boot services References: <1345739803-21017-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> <20121203200241.GG5906@thinkpad-t410> <50BFE88D.1000800@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/05/2012 04:51 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > it moves boot_params from __initdata to data. > and just for using pointer to setup_data. > > should add setup_data pointer instead. so will not waste (4096 - 8) bytes. > That is not the only bit. We already have covered how kexec could use the whole structure, and really, how big a deal is a page of cache-cold storage? -hpa