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SubjectRe: [PATCH] memmap: Parse "Reserved" together with "reserved"
On 04/26/17 at 03:28pm, Dave Young wrote:
> On 04/26/17 at 08:22am, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > For x86 with recent kernel after
> > > commit 640e1b38b0 ("x86/boot/e820: Basic cleanup of e820.c")
> > > change "reserved" to "Reserved" in /sys firmware memmap and /proc/iomem.
> > >
> > > So here, we add handling for that too.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
> > >
> > > ---
> > > kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c | 2 ++
> > > kexec/arch/ia64/kexec-ia64.c | 2 ++
> > > kexec/arch/mips/kexec-mips.c | 2 ++
> > > kexec/firmware_memmap.c | 2 ++
> > > 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> > I'd rather fix the bug I introduced and undo the reserved->Reserved string change
>
> This patch parses both 'reserved' and 'Reserved' it should be fine, but
> reverting the change in kernel sounds better..

Hmm, after press sending I noticed old kexec-tools with new kernel, it
is still a problem, so we'd better to revert the kernel changes.

>
> > in e820.c: I didn't realize that it's exposed in sysfs and had quasi-ABI
> > consequences for kexec.
> >
> > Agreed?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ingo
> >
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> > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
>
> Thanks
> Dave

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