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Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] x86,nvdimm,kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc() for iomem search

From Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] x86,nvdimm,kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc() for iomem search
Date 2015-12-27 01:40 +0100
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On 12/26/2015 3:38 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 03:09:23PM -0700, Toshi Kani wrote:
>> Change to call walk_iomem_res_desc() for searching resource entries
>> with the following names:
>>   "ACPI Tables"
>>   "ACPI Non-volatile Storage"
>>   "Persistent Memory (legacy)"
>>   "Crash kernel"
>>
>> Note, the caller of walk_iomem_res() with "GART" is left unchanged
>> because this entry may be initialized by out-of-tree drivers, which
>> do not have 'desc' set to IORES_DESC_GART.
>
> There's this out-of-tree bogus argument again. :\
>
> Why do we care about out-of-tree drivers?
>
> You can just as well fix the "GART" case too and kill walk_iomem_res()
> altogether...

Right, but I do not see any "GART" case in the upstream code, so I 
cannot change it...

Thanks,
-Toshi
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[PATCH v2 01/16] resource: Add System RAM resource type Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-12-25 23:20 +0100
  [PATCH v2 02/16] resource: make resource flags handled properly Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-12-25 23:20 +0100
  [PATCH v2 13/16] resource: Add walk_iomem_res_desc() Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-12-25 23:20 +0100
  [PATCH v2 10/16] resource: Change walk_system_ram to use System RAM type Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-12-25 23:20 +0100
  [PATCH v2 09/16] drivers: Initialize resource entry to zero Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-12-25 23:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 09/16] drivers: Initialize resource entry to zero Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> - 2015-12-28 22:40 +0100
  [PATCH v2 11/16] arm/samsung: Change s3c_pm_run_res() to use System RAM type Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-12-25 23:20 +0100
  [PATCH v2 07/16] kexec: Set IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM to System RAM Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-12-25 23:20 +0100
  [PATCH v2 03/16] resource: Add I/O resource descriptor Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-12-25 23:20 +0100
  [PATCH v2 06/16] arch: Set IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM to System RAM Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-12-25 23:20 +0100
  [PATCH v2 08/16] xen, mm: Set IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM to System RAM Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-12-25 23:20 +0100
  [PATCH v2 14/16] x86,nvdimm,kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc() for iomem search Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-12-25 23:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] x86,nvdimm,kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc() for  iomem search Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-12-26 11:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] x86,nvdimm,kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc() for  iomem search Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-12-27 01:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] x86, nvdimm, kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc()  for iomem search Minfei Huang <mhuang@redhat.com> - 2015-12-27 03:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] x86, nvdimm, kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc()  for iomem search Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-12-27 11:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] x86,nvdimm,kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc() for  iomem search Minfei Huang <mhuang@redhat.com> - 2015-12-26 17:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] x86,nvdimm,kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc() for  iomem search Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-12-27 01:40 +0100
  [PATCH v2 16/16] ACPI/EINJ: Allow memory error injection to NVDIMM Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-12-25 23:20 +0100
  [PATCH v2 12/16] memremap: Change region_intersects() to take @flags and @desc Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-12-25 23:20 +0100

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