linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, e820: clean up around sanitize_e820

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Date:	Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:51:26 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	WANG Chao <chaowang@...hat.com>
cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	"Lee, Chun-Yi" <joeyli.kernel@...il.com>,
	Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, e820: clean up around sanitize_e820_map()

On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, WANG Chao wrote:

> The argument 3 of sanitize_e820_map() will only update upon a successful
> sanitization. Some of the callers may not be aware of this in the past.
> Now clean up these callers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@...hat.com>

Nice, but it's incomplete: it should also cleanup 
default_machine_specific_memory_setup().  After that's fixed, feel free to 
add my

	Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
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