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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/4] x86/efi: show actual ending addresses in efi_print_memmap
On Wed, 23 Dec, at 07:07:23PM, Robert Elliott wrote:
> Adjust efi_print_memmap to print the real end address of each
> range, not 1 byte beyond. This matches other prints like those for
> SRAT and nosave memory.
>
> While investigating grub persistent memory corruption issues, it
> was helpful to make this table match the ending address convention
> used by:
> * the kernel's e820 table prints
> BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000001680000000-0x0000001c7fffffff] reserved
> * the kernel's nosave memory prints
> PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x880000000-0xc7fffffff]
> * the kernel's ACPI System Resource Affinity Table prints
> SRAT: Node 1 PXM 1 [mem 0x480000000-0x87fffffff]
> * grub's lsmmap and lsefimmap commands
> reserved 0000001680000000-0000001c7fffffff 00600000 24GiB UC WC WT WB NV
> * the UEFI shell's memmap command
> Reserved 000000007FC00000-000000007FFFFFFF 0000000000000400 0000000000000001
>
> For example, if you grep all the various logs for c7fffffff, you
> won't find the kernel's line if it uses c80000000.
>
> Also, change the closing ) to ] to match the opening [.
>
> old:
> efi: mem61: [Persistent Memory | | | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000880000000-0x0000000c80000000) (16384MB)
>
> new:
> efi: mem61: [Persistent Memory | | | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000880000000-0x0000000c7fffffff] (16384MB)
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Expanded rationale in the commit message
> ---
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Thanks Robert, I've queued this up for v4.6.

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