Hi,
* Dave Hansen <haveblue at us.ibm.com> [2007-10-16 20:08]:
> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 18:28 +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> >
> > @@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ static int __init smp_scan_config (unsig
> > smp_found_config = 1;
> > printk(KERN_INFO "found SMP MP-table at %08lx\n",
> > virt_to_phys(mpf));
> > - reserve_bootmem(virt_to_phys(mpf), PAGE_SIZE);
> > + reserve_bootmem(virt_to_phys(mpf), PAGE_SIZE, 0);
> > if (mpf->mpf_physptr) {
> > /*
>
> Could you give all of these 0's a name? I really hate seeing random
> magic numbers in these things. 0 completely kills the ability of
> someone to read the code and figure out what it is trying to do without
> going and looking at reserve_bootmem().
Of course I can replace that zeroes with something like BOOTMEM_DEFAULT.
> Or, alternatively, do something like this:
>
> -extern void reserve_bootmem(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size);
Andi was against more bootmem functions. ;)
Thanks,
Bernhard
