linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/pci: make pci_mem

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Date:	Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:26:36 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	yannick.roehlly@...e.fr
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/pci: make pci_mem_start to be aligned only -v4

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> And that _is_ a really odd hole. I wonder what it is all about. But the 
>> approach does seem to have done the right thing.
> 
> I'll commit the reserve_region_with_split() change. There are no actual 
> users of it now, so committing that change doesn't really do anything, but 
> I like removing code, and with the only current potential user actively 
> wanting just the simpler behavior, why keep the code around?
> 
sure.

yannick, can you check attached three patches on linus tree?
like
http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/readme.txt
and
git checkout -b linus_2009_04_18 linus/master

YH

View attachment "pci_start_linus.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (1862 bytes)

View attachment "pci_start_x.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (1349 bytes)

View attachment "pref_mem_32bit_v2.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (7895 bytes)