Re: [PATCH 01/14] x86, ACPI, mm: Kill max_low_pfn_mapped

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Mar 11 2013 - 21:56:41 EST


The problem is that the code will be broken, and so it makes no sense. The #if 0 is really confusing.

Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 10:09:26PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 03/07/2013 09:28 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> >> They are not using memblock_find_in_range(), so 1ULL<< will not
>help.
>> >>
>> >> Really hope i915 drm guys could clean that hacks.
>> >
>> > The code isn't being used. Just leave it alone. Maybe add a
>comment.
>> > The change is just making things more confusing.
>> >
>>
>> Indeed, but...
>>
>> Daniel: can you guys clean this up or can we just remove the #if 0
>clause?
>
>I guess we could just put this into a comment explaining where stolen
>memory for the gfx devices is at on gen2. But tbh I don't mind if we
>just
>keep the #if 0 code around. For all newer platforms we can get at that
>offset through mch bar registers, so I don't really care.
>-Daniel

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