Re: [PATCH v18 01/17] x86/setup: Move CRASH_ALIGN and CRASH_ADDR_{LOW|HIGH}_MAX to asm/kexec.h

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Dec 22 2021 - 15:43:30 EST


On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 09:08:04PM +0800, Zhen Lei wrote:
> From: Chen Zhou <chenzhou10@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> We want to make function reserve_crashkernel[_low](), which is implemented
^^

Please use passive voice in your commit message: no "we" or "I", etc,
and describe your changes in imperative mood.

Also, pls read section "2) Describe your changes" in
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for more details.

Bottom line is: personal pronouns are ambiguous in text, especially with
so many parties/companies/etc developing the kernel so let's avoid them
please.

> by X86, available to other architectures. It references macro CRASH_ALIGN

"x86"

> and will be moved to public crash_core.c. But the defined values of
> CRASH_ALIGN may be different in different architectures. So moving the
> definition of CRASH_ALIGN to asm/kexec.h is a good choice.
>
> The reason for moving CRASH_ADDR_{LOW|HIGH}_MAX is the same as above.

This commit message needs to say something along the lines of:

"Move CRASH_ALIGN and ... to the arch-specific header in preparation
of making reserve_crashkernel[_low]() generic, used by other
architectures."

or so.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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