在 2018年11月27日 02:54, Dave Hansen 写道: > On 11/23/18 9:12 PM, Lianbo Jiang wrote: >> These patches add the new I/O resource descriptor 'IORES_DESC_RESERVED' >> for the iomem resources search interfaces, and in order to make it still >> work after the new descriptor is added, these codes originally related >> to 'IORES_DESC_NONE' have been updated. > > This is rather anemic "0/" text. Could you please include some more > background in here? The 2/2 patch is pretty good in this regard, but it > needs to be here, too. >
Thanks for your comment. Originally, this patch added the e820 reserved ranges by accurately comparing a string. It only modifies fewer code paths. Please refer to patch v6. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181114072926.13312-2-liji...@redhat.com/ Because the string comparison is fragile and error-prone, this patch used the solution that adds a new descriptor 'IORES_DESC_RESERVED'. Please refer to this link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181120192935.gk2...@zn.tnic/ When passing the e820 reserved ranges to the second kernel, why does it need to compare strings accurately or add a new descriptor 'IORES_DESC_RESERVED'? -The reason is that it can not exactly match the e820 reserved resource ranges when walking through iomem resources with the descriptor 'IORES_DESC_NONE'. Thanks. Lianbo
