Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 10:27:51 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Zhang, Jonathan Zhixiong" <zjzhang@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
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        lenb@kernel.org, ying.huang@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 4/4] acpi, apei: use EFI memmap to map GHES memory
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 04:44:25PM -0700, Zhang, Jonathan Zhixiong wrote:
> Since such function is only needed for APEI functionality, at least as
> of today, I will name it arch_apei_get_mem_attribute().

Why?

It can be extended to be used generically too, no? Come to think of it,
the different arches should already have a way to tell you with what mem
attributes a physical address is mapped, no?

IOW, such functionality should be already present, you'd only have to
find it and use it.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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