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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:48:44 -0800 From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>, mcb30@...e.org, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>, Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>, long.wanglong@...wei.com, qiuxishi@...wei.com, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>, valentinrothberg@...il.com, peter.senna@...il.com, Luis Rodriguez <mcgrof@...e.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Xen Devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [RFC v1 5/8] x86/init: move ebda reservations into linker table On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...not-panic.com> wrote: > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com> > > This lets us annotate its requirements specifically for > PC and lguest subarchitectures. While at it since head.c > just has ebda data rename it. Since we're using linker tables > and both x86 32-bit and 64-bit have them we don't need > to declare a call for this separately. This lets us > also keep this declared static now. > > Since we're using linker tables and have support to annotate > subarchitecture do that instead. pv_legacy() is incorrect as > its really only for legacy PV guests. There's no need for > pv_legacy() check anymore now. I'm entirely ignorant of anything going on in gPXE/iPXE. Can you explain what a linker table *does*? It looks like all you've done in this patch is to move code around. What actually happens? --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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