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From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() to  find_ibft_region()
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 15:00:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <n2n86802c441004011500z441e91d8nc4453d6e85c82d5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100401145448.31e56d0e.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:32:43 -0700 Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> So arch code could decide the way to reserve the ibft.
>>
>> And We should reserve ibft as early as possible, instead of BOOTMEM stage,
>> in case the table is in RAM range and is not reserved by BIOS.
>>
>> move that just sfter find_smp_config()
>>
>> Also when CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM=y, We will not have reserve_bootmem() anymorea
>>
>> -v2: fix typo about ibft pointed by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>
>
>
>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
>> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
>> CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
>>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/kernel/setup.c            |   14 ++++++++++++--
>>  drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft_find.c |   11 ++++++++---
>>  include/linux/iscsi_ibft.h         |    8 ++++++--
>>  3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>> @@ -608,6 +608,16 @@ static int __init setup_elfcorehdr(char
>>  early_param("elfcorehdr", setup_elfcorehdr);
>>  #endif
>>
>> +static __init void reserve_ibft_region(void)
>> +{
>> +     unsigned long addr, size = 0;
>> +
>> +     addr = find_ibft_region(&size);
>> +
>> +     if (size)
>> +             reserve_early_overlap_ok(addr, addr + size, "ibft");
>
>        where is the correction?

-v1 has

 +     if (size)
 +             reserve_early_overlap_ok(addr, addr + size, "ifbt");

Yinghai

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-01 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-01  2:07 [PATCH] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() to find_ibft_region() Yinghai Lu
2010-04-01 20:12 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-04-01 20:59   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-04-01 21:32 ` [PATCH -v2] " Yinghai Lu
2010-04-01 21:54   ` Randy Dunlap
2010-04-01 22:00     ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2010-04-01 22:03       ` Randy Dunlap
2010-04-01 23:51   ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Yinghai Lu

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