linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] Add movablecore

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:31:33 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jiang.liu@...wei.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] Add movablecore_map boot option

On 01/14/2013 01:15 AM, Tang Chen wrote:
>
> For now, users can disable this functionality by not specifying the boot option.
> Later, we will post SRAT support, and add another option value "movablecore_map=acpi"
> to using SRAT.
>

I still think the option "movablecore_map" is uglier than hell.  "core" 
could just as easily refer to CPU cores there, but it is a memory mem. 
"movablemem" seems more appropriate.

Again, without SRAT I consider this patchset to be largely useless for 
anything other than prototyping work.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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