linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] update mem= option's spec according to its implementation

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Message-ID: <508E61D6.3080101@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:00:38 +0800
From:	Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com>
To:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
CC:	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, bhelgaas@...gle.com,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] update mem= option's spec according to its implementation

At 10/29/2012 06:48 PM, richard -rw- weinberger Wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> Current mem= implementation seems buggy because specification and
>> implementation doesn't match. Current mem= has been working
>> for many years and it's not buggy, it works as expected. So
>> we should update the specification.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com>
>> Sort-of-tentatively-acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
> 
> So, is this an ACK or not?
> 

I don't know.

Here is the origin message:

At 06/15/2012 04:22 AM, Rob Landley Wrote:
> I have no objection to this but can't confirm it's true or not without
> an awful lot more digging through the code I don't have time for right
> now. (All the x86-32 machines I've used just had the 640k->1m hole and
> the rest was contiguous memory, so the behavior would be the same either
> way...)
> 
> Sort-of-tentatively-acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
> 
> Rob
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