On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 16:49 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 08:44:02AM -0700, Toshi Kani wrote: > > Besides "System RAM", which is commonly searched by multiple callers, > > we > > only have a few other uncommon cases: > > - crash.c searches for "GART", "ACPI Tables", and "ACPI Non-volatile > > Storage". > > - kexec_file.c searches for "Crash kernel". > > - einj.c will search for "Persistent Memory". > > Right, about those other types: your patchset improves the situation > but doesn't really get rid of the strcmp() and the strings. And using > strings to find resource types still looks yucky to me, even a week > later. :) > > So how hard is it to do: > > region_intersects(base_addr, size, IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM); > region_intersects(base_addr, size, IORESOURCE_MEM, > RES_TYPE_PERSISTENT); > walk_iomem_res(RES_TYPE_GART, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0, -1, ced, > get_gart_ranges_callback); > ... > > and so on instead of using those silly strings?
We do not have enough bits left to cover any potential future use-cases with other strings if we are going to get rid of strcmp() completely. Since the searches from crash and kexec are one-time thing, and einj is a R&D tool, I think we can leave the strcmp() check for these special cases, and keep the interface flexible with any strings. 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/
