linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/mm/doc: Clean up mm.txt

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Message-ID: <20180927000228.GG2555@MiWiFi-R3L-srv>
Date:   Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:02:28 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     mingo@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
        x86@...nel.org, thgarnie@...gle.com, corbet@....net,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, peterz@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/mm/doc: Clean up mm.txt

On 09/21/18 at 10:05am, Baoquan He wrote:
> This clean up is suggested by Ingo.

This series is messy, have sent v2. So NACK this v1 series.

> 
> It firstly fix the confusions in mm layout tables by unifying
> each memory region description in the consistent style.
> 
> Secondly take the KASLR words out of the mm layout tables to make
> it as a separate section to only list mm layout in non-KASLR case.
> Then add KASLR document at the end of mm.txt.
> 
> Meanwhile update document about KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE in
> arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h .
> 
> Baoquan He (3):
>   x86/KASLR: Update document about KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE
>   x86/mm/doc: Clean up the memory region layout descriptions
>   x86/doc/kaslr.txt: Create a separate part of document abourt KASLR at
>     the end of file
> 
>  Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt      | 138 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h |   7 +-
>  2 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.13.6
>