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Message-ID: <CANCZXo5GXVmbKpOkgFD2eOTz5_wbP6zQ9HLvLH5qXZc=h7-Hxw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 8 Feb 2016 23:21:54 +0600
From:	Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@...il.com>
To:	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/setup: refactor initrd reservation

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@...il.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Alexander Kuleshov
> <kuleshovmail@...il.com> wrote:
>> The check and definitions related to ramdisk are similar in the
>> early_reserve_initrd() and reserve_initrd(). So we can get rid of
>> early_reserve_initrd() and and use late or early algorithm for
>> initrd reservation depends on reserve_initrd() parameter value.
>
> Perhaps: "Squash {early_,}reserve_initrd() to one function" would be
> better for Subject line since it describes what you are doing here
> (Answering question "What kind of refactor?").
>
> Also if you have more argument (like .text size before and after) I
> suppose it would have been passed faster.
>

Hello Andy, thanks for your suggestions. Will update it in second revision.

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