Re: [PATCH -v2] ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() to find_ibft_region()

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Thu Apr 01 2010 - 18:00:14 EST


On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ---
>>  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
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