From: Randy Dunlap on
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 15:00:05 -0700 Yinghai Lu wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)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(a)darnok.org>
> >
> >
> >> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai(a)kernel.org>
> >> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg(a)cs.helsinki.fi>
> >> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com>
> >> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad(a)kernel.org>
> >> CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich(a)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");

Thanks. My eyes are blurry. ;)

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~Randy
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