Message-ID: <1428077687.31093.120.camel@misato.fc.hp.com>
Subject: Re: [Linux-nvdimm] [PATCH 1/2] x86: add support for the
 non-standard protected e820 type
From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 10:14:47 -0600
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On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 09:12 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
  :
> @@ -748,7 +758,7 @@ u64 __init early_reserve_e820(u64 size, u64 align)
>  /*
>   * Find the highest page frame number we have available
>   */
> -static unsigned long __init e820_end_pfn(unsigned long limit_pfn, unsigned type)
> +static unsigned long __init e820_end_pfn(unsigned long limit_pfn)
>  {
>  	int i;
>  	unsigned long last_pfn = 0;
> @@ -759,7 +769,11 @@ static unsigned long __init e820_end_pfn(unsigned long limit_pfn, unsigned type)
>  		unsigned long start_pfn;
>  		unsigned long end_pfn;
>  
> -		if (ei->type != type)
> +		/*
> +		 * Persistent memory is accounted as ram for purposes of
> +		 * establishing max_pfn and mem_map.
> +		 */
> +		if (ei->type != E820_RAM && ei->type != E820_PRAM)
>  			continue;

Should we also delete this code, accounting E820_PRAM as ram, along with
the deletion of reserve_pmem() in this version?

Thanks,
-Toshi


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