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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, vgoyal@redhat.com, horms@verge.net.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86 e820: Check for exactmap appearance when parsing first memmap option
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:09:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51072147.9090306@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1358868049-19884-2-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de>

On 01/22/2013 07:20 AM, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
> 
> memmap=exactmap will throw away all original, but also until then
> user defined (through other provided memmap= parameters) areas.
> That means all memmap= boot parameters passed before a memmap=exactmap
> parameter are not recognized.
> Without this fix:
> memmap=x@y memmap=exactmap memmap=i#k
> only i#k would get recognized.
> 
> This is wrong, this fix will only throw away all original e820 areas once
> when memmap=exactmap is found in the whole boot command line and before
> any other memmap= option is parsed.
> 

I don't understand why this is wrong.  The kernel command line is always
parsed from left to right, and I don't see anything inherently
problematic with that with something like a big hammer like exactmap.

	-hpa



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-29  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-22 15:20 [PATCH 0/2] Only parse exactmap once, introduce memmap=resetusablemap Thomas Renninger
2013-01-22 15:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86 e820: Check for exactmap appearance when parsing first memmap option Thomas Renninger
2013-01-22 19:33   ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-29  1:09   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-01-29  2:01     ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-22 15:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86 e820: Introduce memmap=resetusablemap for kdump usage Thomas Renninger
2013-01-22 15:54   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-22 16:23     ` Thomas Renninger
2013-01-22 16:32       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-22 20:06         ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-24  4:07           ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-29  1:05             ` Thomas Renninger
2013-01-29  1:11               ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-29  2:10                 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-29  2:11                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-29  2:19                     ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-29  2:20                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-29  2:27                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-29  2:31                         ` Yinghai Lu
2013-01-29  3:33                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-29  9:47                   ` Thomas Renninger

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