From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 37/50] x86/boot/e820: Use 'enum e820_type' in 'struct e820_entry'
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 10:53:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFxh+YfC=dum0=d9VkRsy3=FpxAt-vkMDxO6qv3K9Qt=2w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170129091912.GA26237@gmail.com>
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 1:19 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Would it be acceptable to use enum for the kernel internal representation (our
> e820_table structures never actually comes directly, we construct it ourselves),
> and maintain the very explicitly sized ABI type for the boot protocol only (i.e.
> uapi/asm/bootparam.h)?
I guess that would work, assuming that it doesn't cause unnecessary conversions.
Looking at the patch you sent out (assuming that's the complete deal),
it looks reasonable.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-29 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-28 22:11 [PATCH 00/50] x86: Clean up and reorganize the E820 table handling code Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 01/50] x86/boot/e820: Introduce arch/x86/include/asm/e820/types.h Ingo Molnar
2017-01-29 17:13 ` Sam Ravnborg
2017-01-30 7:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-01-31 5:41 ` Sam Ravnborg
2017-01-31 16:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-01-31 17:22 ` Sam Ravnborg
2017-01-31 18:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-01-31 18:04 ` Joe Perches
2017-01-31 19:17 ` Sam Ravnborg
2017-02-01 8:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 02/50] x86/boot/e820: Clean up and improve comments in asm/e820/types.h Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 03/50] x86/boot/e820: Move asm/e820.h to asm/e820/api.h Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 04/50] x86/boot/e820: Split minimal UAPI types out into uapi/asm/e820/types.h Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 05/50] x86/boot/e820: Clean up the E820_X_MAX definition Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 06/50] x86/boot/e820: Remove spurious asm/e820/api.h inclusions Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 07/50] x86/boot/e820: Remove assembly guard from asm/e820/types.h Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 08/50] x86/boot/e820: Clean up asm/e820/api.h Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 09/50] x86/boot/e820: Remove unnecessary __ASSEMBLY__ guard Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 10/50] x86/boot/e820: Move HIGH_MEMORY define to asm/e820/types.h Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 11/50] x86/boot/e820: Rename the basic e820 data types to 'struct e820_entry' and 'struct e820_array' Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 12/50] x86/boot/e820: Remove unnecessary #include <linux/ioport.h> from asm/e820/api.h Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 13/50] x86/boot/e820: Remove e820_mark_nosave_regions() definition uglies Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 14/50] x86/boot/e820: Rename 'e820_map' variables to 'e820_array' Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 15/50] x86/boot/e820: Rename everything to e820_table Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 16/50] x86/boot/e820: Harmonize the 'struct e820_table' fields Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 17/50] x86/boot/e820: Rename default_machine_specific_memory_setup() to e820__memory_setup_default() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 18/50] x86/boot/e820: Rename e820_table_saved to e820_table_firmware and improve the description Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 19/50] x86/boot/e820: Basic cleanup of e820.c Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 20/50] x86/boot/e820: Rename memblock_x86_fill() to e820__memblock_setup() and improve the explanations Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 21/50] x86/boot/e820: Consolidate 'struct e820_entry *entry' local variable names Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 22/50] x86/boot/e820: Convert printk(KERN_* ...) to pr_*() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:59 ` Joe Perches
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 23/50] x86/boot/e820: Move the memblock_find_dma_reserve() function and rename it to memblock_set_dma_reserve() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 24/50] x86/boot/e820: Rename parse_e820_ext() to e820__memory_setup_extended() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 25/50] x86/boot/e820: Move e820_reserve_setup_data() to e820.c Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 26/50] x86/boot/e820: Clarify the role of finish_e820_parsing() and rename it to e820__finish_early_params() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 27/50] x86/boot/e820: Rename early_reserve_e820() to e820__memblock_alloc() and document it Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 28/50] x86/boot/e820: Rename update_e820() to e820__update_table() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 29/50] x86/boot/e820: Rename sanitize_e820_table() " Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 30/50] x86/boot/e820: Rename e820_any_mapped()/e820_all_mapped() to e820__mapped_any()/e820__mapped_all() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 31/50] x86/boot/e820: Rename e820_setup_gap() to e820__setup_pci_gap() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 32/50] x86/boot/e820: Create coherent API function names for E820 range operations Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 33/50] x86/boot/e820: Rename e820_print_map() to e820__print_table() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 34/50] x86/boot/e820: Reorder the function prototypes in api.h Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 35/50] x86/boot/e820: Simplify e820_reserve_resources() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 36/50] x86/boot/e820: Introduce 'enum e820_type' Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 37/50] x86/boot/e820: Use 'enum e820_type' in 'struct e820_entry' Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 23:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-29 9:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-01-29 12:38 ` [PATCH] x86/boot/e820: Separate the E820 ABI structures from the in-kernel structures Ingo Molnar
2017-01-29 18:53 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2017-01-28 22:11 ` [PATCH 38/50] x86/boot/e820: Use 'enum e820_type' when handling the e820 region type Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:12 ` [PATCH 39/50] x86/boot/e820: Prefix the E820_* type names with "E820_TYPE_" Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:12 ` [PATCH 40/50] x86/boot/e820: Clean up the E820 table size define names Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:12 ` [PATCH 41/50] x86/boot/e820: Clean up and standardize sizeof() uses Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:12 ` [PATCH 42/50] xen, x86/boot/e820: Simplify Xen's xen_e820_table construct Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:12 ` [PATCH 43/50] x86/boot/e820: Simplify the e820__update_table() interface Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:12 ` [PATCH 44/50] x86/boot/e820: Clean up __e820__update_table() et al Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:12 ` [PATCH 45/50] x86/boot/e820: Document e820__reserve_setup_data() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:12 ` [PATCH 46/50] x86/boot/e820: Use bool in query APIs Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:12 ` [PATCH 47/50] x86/boot/e820: Rename e820_reserve_resources*() to e820__reserve_resources*() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:12 ` [PATCH 48/50] x86/boot/e820: Rename e820_mark_nosave_regions() to e820__register_nosave_regions() Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:12 ` [PATCH 49/50] x86/boot/e820: Remove unnecessary #include's Ingo Molnar
2017-01-28 22:12 ` [PATCH 50/50] x86/boot/e820: Rename the remaining E820 APIs to the e820__*() prefix Ingo Molnar
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