linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V6 3/3] efi: Distinguish between "remaining space" and actually used space

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Date:	Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:14:57 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@...ula.com>
To:	joeyli <jlee@...e.com>
CC:	"matt.fleming@...el.com" <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	"linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 3/3] efi: Distinguish between "remaining space" and
 actually used space

On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 18:08 +0800, joeyli wrote:

> It causes the garbage size increased and remaining_size decreased. But
> we still can create new variable because active_size doesn't increase
> due to we delete variable before create new. So, the condition
> "remaining_size - size < storage_size / 2" will not really hit because
> active_size condition is pass.

That's fine - the (limited) information we have from Samsung is that
there's no problem if all the space is dirty, only if all the space is
marked as active.

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