linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm -v4 1/3] i386/x86

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Message-Id: <200710090228.09841.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Date:	Tue, 9 Oct 2007 02:28:09 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v4 1/3] i386/x86_64 boot: setup data

On Tuesday 09 October 2007 18:55, Huang, Ying wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 02:06 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > I'm just wondering whether you really need to access highmem in
> > boot code...
>
> Because the zero page (boot_parameters) of i386 boot protocol has 4k
> limitation, a linked list style boot parameter passing mechanism (struct
> setup_data) is proposed by Peter Anvin. The linked list is provided by
> bootloader, so it is possible to be in highmem region.

OK. I don't really know the code, but I trust you ;)


> > Definitely on most architectures it would just amount to
> > memcpy(dst, __va(phys), n);, right? However I don't know if
>
> Yes.
>
> > it's worth the trouble of overriding it unless there is some
> > non-__init user of it.
>
> To support debugging and kexec, the boot parameters include the linked
> list above are exported into sysfs. This function is used there too. The
> patch is the No. 2 of the series.

Ah, I see. I missed that.

OK, well rather than make it weak, and have everyone except
i386 override it, can you just ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM?

After that, I guess most other architectures wouldn't even
use the function. Maybe it can go into lib/ instead so that
it can be discarded by the linker if it isn't used?
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