On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 17:56 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > To parse srat early, we need to move acpi table probing early. > acpi_initrd_table_override is before acpi table probing. So we need to > move it early too. > > Current code acpi_initrd_table_override is after init_mem_mapping and > relocate_initrd(), so it can scan initrd and copy acpi tables with kernel > virtual address of initrd. > Copying need to be after memblock is ready, because it need to allocate > buffer for new acpi tables. > > So we have to split that function to find and copy two functions. > Find should be as early as possible. Copy should be after memblock is ready. > > Finding could be done in head_32.S and head64.c, just like microcode > early scanning. In head_32.S, it is 32bit flat mode, we don't > need to set page table to access it. In head64.c, #PF set page table > could help us access initrd with kernel low mapping address. > > Copying could be done just after memblock is ready and before probing > acpi tables, and we need to early_ioremap to access source and target > range, as init_mem_mapping is not called yet. > > While a dummy version of acpi_initrd_override() was defined when > !CONFIG_ACPI_INITRD_TABLE_OVERRIDE, the prototype and dummy version > were conditionalized inside CONFIG_ACPI. This forced setup_arch() to > have its own #ifdefs around acpi_initrd_override() as otherwise build > would fail when !CONFIG_ACPI. Move the prototypes and dummy > implementations of the newly split functions below CONFIG_ACPI block > in acpi.h so that we can do away with #ifdefs in its user. > > -v2: Split one patch out according to tj. > also don't pass table_nr around. > -v3: Add Tj's changelog about moving down to #idef in acpi.h to > avoid #idef in setup.c > > Signed-off-by: Yinghai <ying...@kernel.org> > Cc: Pekka Enberg <penb...@kernel.org> > Cc: Jacob Shin <jacob.s...@amd.com> > Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <r...@sisk.pl> > Cc: linux-a...@vger.kernel.org > Acked-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org> > Tested-by: Thomas Renninger <tr...@suse.de> > Reviewed-by: Tang Chen <tangc...@cn.fujitsu.com> > Tested-by: Tang Chen <tangc...@cn.fujitsu.com>
Looks good to me. Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.k...@hp.com> Thanks, -Toshi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
