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Message-ID: <20150613082750.GA3470@pd.tnic>
Date:	Sat, 13 Jun 2015 10:27:51 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"Zhang, Jonathan Zhixiong" <zjzhang@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, fu.wei@...aro.org,
	al.stone@...aro.org, tony.luck@...il.com, rjw@...ysocki.net,
	lenb@...nel.org, ying.huang@...el.com, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 4/4] acpi, apei: use EFI memmap to map GHES memory

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 04:44:25PM -0700, Zhang, Jonathan Zhixiong wrote:
> Since such function is only needed for APEI functionality, at least as
> of today, I will name it arch_apei_get_mem_attribute().

Why?

It can be extended to be used generically too, no? Come to think of it,
the different arches should already have a way to tell you with what mem
attributes a physical address is mapped, no?

IOW, such functionality should be already present, you'd only have to
find it and use it.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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