Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756258Ab3H3W4U (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:56:20 -0400 Received: from mail-qe0-f49.google.com ([209.85.128.49]:63835 "EHLO mail-qe0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753535Ab3H3W4S (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:56:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1376090777-20090-1-git-send-email-roy.franz@linaro.org> <1376090777-20090-5-git-send-email-roy.franz@linaro.org> <20130830130131.D7CE63E102A@localhost> From: Grant Likely Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 23:55:56 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Bp4aU0k5pYToLjed-4rUCeE2nbA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/16] Add minimum address parameter to efi_low_alloc() To: Roy Franz Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , matt.fleming@intel.com, Russell King - ARM Linux , Dave Martin , Leif Lindholm , Mark Salter Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1095 Lines: 26 On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Roy Franz wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Grant Likely wrote: >> On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 16:26:05 -0700, Roy Franz wrote: >>> This allows allocations to be made low in memory while >>> avoiding allocations at the base of memory. >> >> Your commit message should include /why/ the change is needed. From the >> above I understand what the patch does, but I don't understand why it is >> necessary. > > This was used to avoid relocating the zImage so low in memory that it > would conflict > with memory range that it was decompressed into. This is now handled > by allocating > the memory for the decompressed kernel, so the lower limit is no > longer required. > I'll remove it, as it is not necessary any more. Even better! :-) g. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/