linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] memmap: Parse "Reserved" together with "reserved"

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Message-ID: <20170426062247.fbl62xrkrm7tvnga@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:22:47 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:     Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memmap: Parse "Reserved" together with "reserved"


* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:

> For x86 with recent kernel after
>  commit 640e1b38b0 ("x86/boot/e820: Basic cleanup of e820.c")
> change "reserved" to "Reserved" in /sys firmware memmap and /proc/iomem.
> 
> So here, we add handling for that too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
> 
> ---
>  kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c |    2 ++
>  kexec/arch/ia64/kexec-ia64.c    |    2 ++
>  kexec/arch/mips/kexec-mips.c    |    2 ++
>  kexec/firmware_memmap.c         |    2 ++
>  4 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

I'd rather fix the bug I introduced and undo the reserved->Reserved string change 
in e820.c: I didn't realize that it's exposed in sysfs and had quasi-ABI 
consequences for kexec.

Agreed?

Thanks,

	Ingo