linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/10] x86 boot: add code to add BIOS provided EFI memory entries to kernel

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Date:	Mon, 19 May 2008 18:10:20 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
Cc:	ying.huang@...el.com, hpa@...or.com, andi@...stfloor.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de, steiner@....com,
	travis@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] x86 boot: add code to add BIOS provided EFI
	memory entries to kernel


* Paul Jackson <pj@....com> wrote:

> Ingo wrote:
> > so double-checking [the merge of my x86 boot patches] would be nice.
> 
> I only see one detail worth mentioning on reading the resulting merge 
> in ingo.tip.
> 
> Shouldn't the static array declarations in arch/x86/kernel/e820.c be 
> indented?  It looks like the -file- static declarations from 
> arch/x86/kernel/e820_32.c (which were not indented) took precedence in 
> the merge over the -function- static declarations from 
> arch/x86/kernel/e820_64.c.  The code, from the perspective of what 
> ends up in the compiled kernel, seems fine -- just the indentation 
> off.
> 
> int __init sanitize_e820_map(struct e820entry *biosmap, int max_nr_map,
> 				int *pnr_map)
> {
> 	struct change_member {
> 		struct e820entry *pbios; /* pointer to original bios entry */
> 		unsigned long long addr; /* address for this change point */
> 	};
> static struct change_member change_point_list[2*E820_X_MAX] __initdata;
> static struct change_member *change_point[2*E820_X_MAX] __initdata;
> static struct e820entry *overlap_list[E820_X_MAX] __initdata;
> static struct e820entry new_bios[E820_X_MAX] __initdata;
> 	struct change_member *change_tmp;
> 	unsigned long current_type, last_type;
> 	unsigned long long last_addr;

indeed that's quite off.

	Ingo
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