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Re: [PATCH] xen/pvh: Do not fill kernel's e820 map in init_pvh_bootparams()

From Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] xen/pvh: Do not fill kernel's e820 map in init_pvh_bootparams()
Date 2017-04-21 10:40 +0200
Message-ID <tyCgG-3B2-13@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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On 20/04/17 19:32, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> e820 map is updated with information from the zeropage (i.e.
> pvh_bootparams) by default_machine_specific_memory_setup().
> With the way things are done now, we end up with a duplicated
> e820 map.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


Thanks,

Juergen

> ---
> This patch is against for-linus-4.12 branch. Since this is not
> a critical issue I don't want to submit it to 4.11 at rc8 time
> (plus it will require rebasing for-linus-4.12).
> 
> 
>  arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pvh.c | 6 ------
>  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pvh.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pvh.c
> index 331d769..7ce319a9 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pvh.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pvh.c
> @@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ static void xen_pvh_arch_setup(void)
>  static void __init init_pvh_bootparams(void)
>  {
>  	struct xen_memory_map memmap;
> -	unsigned int i;
>  	int rc;
>  
>  	memset(&pvh_bootparams, 0, sizeof(pvh_bootparams));
> @@ -60,12 +59,7 @@ static void __init init_pvh_bootparams(void)
>  	sanitize_e820_map(pvh_bootparams.e820_map,
>  			  ARRAY_SIZE(pvh_bootparams.e820_map),
>  			  &memmap.nr_entries);
> -
>  	pvh_bootparams.e820_entries = memmap.nr_entries;
> -	for (i = 0; i < pvh_bootparams.e820_entries; i++)
> -		e820_add_region(pvh_bootparams.e820_map[i].addr,
> -				pvh_bootparams.e820_map[i].size,
> -				pvh_bootparams.e820_map[i].type);
>  
>  	pvh_bootparams.hdr.cmd_line_ptr =
>  		pvh_start_info.cmdline_paddr;
> 

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[PATCH] xen/pvh: Do not fill kernel's e820 map in init_pvh_bootparams() Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-04-20 19:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] xen/pvh: Do not fill kernel's e820 map in  init_pvh_bootparams() Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2017-04-21 10:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] xen/pvh: Do not fill kernel's e820 map in  init_pvh_bootparams() Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2017-04-21 11:40 +0200

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