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

From	Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] x86, nvdimm, kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc() for iomem search
Date	2016-01-04 10:30 +0100
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Hi, Boris

On 12/27/15 at 11:24am, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 10:12:57AM +0800, Minfei Huang wrote:
> > You can refer the below link that you may get a clue about GART. This is
> > the fisrt time kexec-tools tried to support to ignore GART region in 2nd
> > kernel.
> > 
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2008-December/003096.html
> 
> So theoretically we could export that IORES_DESC* enum in an uapi header and
> move kexec-tools to use that.
> 
> However, I'm fuzzy on how exactly the whole compatibility thing is done
> with kexec-tools and the kernel. We probably would have to support
> newer kexec-tools on an older kernel and vice versa so I'd guess we
> should mark walk_iomem_res() deprecated so that people are encouraged to
> upgrade to newer kexec-tools...

Replied to Toshi old kernel will export the "GART" region for amd cards.
So for old kernel and new kexec-tools we will have problem.

I think add the GART desc for compitibility purpose is doable, no?

Thanks
Dave
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Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] x86, nvdimm, kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc()  for iomem search Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> - 2016-01-04 10:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] x86, nvdimm, kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc()  for iomem search Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-01-04 13:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] x86, nvdimm, kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc()  for iomem search Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-01-04 19:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] x86, nvdimm, kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc()  for iomem search Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-01-04 20:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] x86, nvdimm, kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc()  for iomem search Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-01-04 20:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] x86, nvdimm, kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc()  for iomem search Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> - 2016-01-05 06:30 +0100

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