linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/29] x86/boot/e820: Assorted E820 table handling features and cleanups

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Message-ID: <aCXWYUQ3is0UZSFp@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 13:56:17 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
	Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/29] x86/boot/e820: Assorted E820 table handling
 features and cleanups


* Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 21, 2025, at 20:51, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >  - Assorted cleanups: type cleanups, simplifications, standardization
> >    of coding patterns, etc.
> 
> Since you are already looking at cleaning up the types and testing
> a lot, I wonder if you could make sure this also works for a 32-bit
> phys_addr_t when booting a 32-bit kernel with and without
> CONFIG_X86_PAE. In my recent cleanup series I originally
> changed phys_addr_t to 32 bit after removing CONFIG_HIGHMEM_64G,
> but this caused regressions, so it's still left as u64 even
> though it should not be needed any more.

Yeah, this series does boot fine with and without PAE+HIGHMEM4G in my 
testing.

Thanks,

	Ingo