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

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:31:23 +0200
From:	Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@...il.com>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
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

Op 14-06-11 17:21, Matthew Garrett schreef:
> 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.
Ok, I believe you are right about the succesful ones, since memblock=debug
will let you see those anyhow.

Should I change the unsuccesful ones to use memblock_dbg instead of printk?
In that case you can still debug it if needed. Same question for free path,
change printk to memblock_dbg?
>> -		  "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.
Ok. Just wasn't sure what to make of it, since that message kept popping up here.

~Maarten
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