linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/e820: make e820 type string uniform

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Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:44:11 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@...ux.dev>, tglx@...utronix.de,
        mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
        hpa@...or.com
Cc:     noodles@...com, ross.philipson@...cle.com, daniel.kiper@...cle.com,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/e820: make e820 type string uniform

On 10/20/22 04:56, Yajun Deng wrote:
> /proc/iomem:
> ...
> 00000000-00000fff : Reserved
> 00001000-0005efff : System RAM
> 0005f000-0005ffff : Reserved
> 00060000-0009ffff : System RAM
> 000a0000-000fffff : Reserved
>   000a0000-000bffff : PCI Bus 0000:00
>   000c0000-000cddff : Video ROM
>   000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
> 00100000-80ff3017 : System RAM
> 80ff3018-81003e57 : System RAM (kernel)
> 81003e58-81004017 : System RAM
> 81004018-81023c57 : System RAM (kernel)
> 81023c58-87672fff : System RAM

I guess this is a pretty minimal change.  It definitely makes
/proc/iomem more human-readable.

Did you consider if this change might break any users of this file?