linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/boot: comments cleanup & indentation fix

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Date:   Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:20:46 +0800
From:   Cao jin <caoj.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
To:     <tglx@...utronix.de>, <mingo@...hat.com>, <bp@...en8.de>,
        <hpa@...or.com>
CC:     <x86@...nel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/boot: comments cleanup & indentation fix

Hi,
  Is the patch not right?

-- 
Sincerely,
Cao jin

On 1/4/19 8:04 PM, Cao jin wrote:
> No real code modification, just cleanup:
> 1. remove redundant comments which have already appeared above
> 2. comments improvement:
>       "aligned to a 2M boundary"
>       -->
>       "aligned up to CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN boundary"
> 3. typo fix: uncompression --> decompression
> 4. indentation fix in linker script: spaces -> tab
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S     | 13 +++++--------
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S |  4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
> index 64037895b085..58f6a467f1fa 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
> @@ -90,9 +90,6 @@ ENTRY(startup_32)
>  	jnz	no_longmode
>  
>  /*
> - * Compute the delta between where we were compiled to run at
> - * and where the code will actually run at.
> - *
>   * %ebp contains the address we are loaded at by the boot loader and %ebx
>   * contains the address where we should move the kernel image temporarily
>   * for safe in-place decompression.
> @@ -272,12 +269,12 @@ ENTRY(startup_64)
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Compute the decompressed kernel start address.  It is where
> -	 * we were loaded at aligned to a 2M boundary. %rbp contains the
> -	 * decompressed kernel start address.
> +	 * we were loaded at aligned up to CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN boundary.
> +	 * %rbp contains the decompressed kernel start address.
>  	 *
>  	 * If it is a relocatable kernel then decompress and run the kernel
> -	 * from load address aligned to 2MB addr, otherwise decompress and
> -	 * run the kernel from LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR
> +	 * from load address aligned up to CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN, otherwise
> +	 * decompress and run the kernel from LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR
>  	 *
>  	 * We cannot rely on the calculation done in 32-bit mode, since we
>  	 * may have been invoked via the 64-bit entry point.
> @@ -525,7 +522,7 @@ relocated:
>   */
>  	pushq	%rsi			/* Save the real mode argument */
>  	movq	%rsi, %rdi		/* real mode address */
> -	leaq	boot_heap(%rip), %rsi	/* malloc area for uncompression */
> +	leaq	boot_heap(%rip), %rsi	/* malloc area for decompression */
>  	leaq	input_data(%rip), %rdx  /* input_data */
>  	movl	$z_input_len, %ecx	/* input_len */
>  	movq	%rbp, %r8		/* output target address */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> index f491bbde8493..c07c8aba0755 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ SECTIONS
>  		_ebss = .;
>  	}
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> -       . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
> -       .pgtable : {
> +	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
> +	.pgtable : {
>  		_pgtable = . ;
>  		*(.pgtable)
>  		_epgtable = . ;
>