linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Do not reserve boot services regions within reserved areas

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:21:02 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@...il.com>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, Jim Bos <jim876@...all.nl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Do not reserve boot services regions within
 reserved areas

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 05:03:14PM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:

> +		/* Could not reserve boot area */
> +		if (!size)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		printk(KERN_INFO PFX "Freeing boot area "
> +			"[0x%llx-0x%llx)\n", start, start+size);

Probably don't need the printk - we could be dumping a few hundred of 
those.

> -		  "Kernel-defined memdesc doesn't match the one from EFI!\n");
> +		  "Kernel-defined memdesc (%lu) "
> +			"doesn't match the one from EFI(%lu)!\n",
> +			sizeof(efi_memory_desc_t), memmap.desc_size);

And drop this hunk. It's entirely valid for an implementation to do 
this, we should just delete the message entirely.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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