On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:36 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 12/05/2012 04:15 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: >>>> >>> >>> I don't see why that isn't the right fix. We copy the data into >>> boot_params early in the boot; that *is* the official copy as far as the >>> kernel is concerned. >>> >>> So this patch very much seems like The Right Thing. >> >> it moves boot_params from __initdata to data. > > should be from __initdata to bss > >> and just for using pointer to setup_data. >> >> should add setup_data pointer instead. so will not waste (4096 - 8) bytes. I'm not following the whole discussion here, but my impression is that what's in my -next branch is acceptable (http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci.git;a=commitdiff;h=328949ff10f2e3fcb11472571294beed39488342) If not, please explain further and provide a patch to fix it. Bjorn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
