On May 16, 2015 12:48 AM, "Dan Williams" <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> wrote: > > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Jeff Moyer <jmo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> writes: > > > >> @@ -919,10 +920,31 @@ static inline const char *e820_type_to_string(int > >> e820_type) > >> case E820_NVS: return "ACPI Non-volatile Storage"; > >> case E820_UNUSABLE: return "Unusable memory"; > >> case E820_PRAM: return "Persistent RAM"; > >> + case E820_PMEM: return "Persistent I/O Memory"; > > > > Minor nit, but nobody refers to this stuff as persistent I/O memory. > > I've heard it referred to as persistent memory or storage class memory. > > In the end, I doubt it matters. > > Had we not polluted the waters with E820_PRAM I would have chosen > "Persistent Memory", but as we now need to support both I'd assume > they need different names.
We could reverse it and call E820_PRAM "legacy persistent RAM" or something similar. </bikeshed> > > > Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmo...@redhat.com> > > Thanks Jeff. -- 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/
