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Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Correct a tiny mistake in code comment

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On 03/08/17 at 03:47pm, Baoquan He wrote:
> EFI allocate runtime services regions down from EFI_VA_START, -4G.
> It should be top-down handling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
> index a4695da..6cbf9e0 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
>  #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
>  
>  /*
> - * We allocate runtime services regions bottom-up, starting from -4G, i.e.
> + * We allocate runtime services regions top-down, starting from -4G, i.e.

Baoquan, I think original bottom-up is right, it is just considering
-68G as up, see the x86_64 mm.txt. We regard vmalloc as higher address
although from mathematics view it is lower then positive addresses.

>   * 0xffff_ffff_0000_0000 and limit EFI VA mapping space to 64G.
>   */
>  static u64 efi_va = EFI_VA_START;
> -- 
> 2.5.5
> 

Thanks
Dave

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[PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Correct a tiny mistake in code comment Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> - 2017-03-08 08:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Correct a tiny mistake in code comment Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> - 2017-03-08 09:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Correct a tiny mistake in code comment Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> - 2017-03-08 10:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Correct a tiny mistake in code comment Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> - 2017-03-08 10:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Correct a tiny mistake in code comment Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> - 2017-03-08 10:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Correct a tiny mistake in code comment Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-03-08 10:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Correct a tiny mistake in code comment Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> - 2017-03-08 11:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Correct a tiny mistake in code comment Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-03-08 15:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Correct a tiny mistake in code comment Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> - 2017-03-09 02:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Correct a tiny mistake in code comment Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> - 2017-03-08 21:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Correct a tiny mistake in code comment Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> - 2017-03-08 11:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Correct a tiny mistake in code comment Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> - 2017-03-08 10:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Correct a tiny mistake in code comment Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-03-08 14:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Correct a tiny mistake in code comment Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> - 2017-03-09 02:50 +0100
  [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/efi/64: Clean up code comment about efi region Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> - 2017-03-08 14:00 +0100

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