Re: [PATCH] x86/efi: Auto enable EFI memmap on SGI UV systems

2016-06-14 Thread Joseph Thelen
On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 01:12:23PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Joseph Thelen wrote: > > > static int __init setup_add_efi_memmap(char *arg) > > { > > + static bool arg_as_bool; > > Why hidden inside local variables as static? Likely muscle memory of s

Re: [PATCH] x86/efi: Auto enable EFI memmap on SGI UV systems

2016-06-14 Thread Joseph Thelen
On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 01:36:23PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: > (Cc'ing people familiar with e820 map woes) > > On Thu, 02 Jun, at 03:50:35PM, Joseph Thelen wrote: > > Currently, the EFI memory map entries are disabled by default and must > > be enabled by pass

[PATCH] x86/efi: Auto enable EFI memmap on SGI UV systems

2016-06-02 Thread Joseph Thelen
ws the EFI memory map entries to be explicitly disabled (will not be automatically enabled) by setting the add_efi_memmap boot option to anything that kstringtobool will determine to be false. Signed-off-by: Joseph Thelen Cc: Alex Thorlton Cc: Matt Fleming Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc:

[RFC PATCH] x86/efi: Auto enable EFI memmap on SGI UV systems

2016-06-02 Thread Joseph Thelen
Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: x...@kernel.org Cc: linux-...@vger.kernel.org Joseph Thelen (1): x86/efi: Auto enable EFI memmap on SGI UV systems arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 43 +++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 4

Re: [PATCH] x86/efi: Auto enable EFI memmap on SGI UV systems

2016-06-17 Thread Joseph Thelen
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 05:34:49PM -0500, Joseph Thelen wrote: > We're still reasonably confident we'll need something like this. Although, > after looking into the stuff you mention, it seems that it should perhaps > be a bit more sophisticated than just checking if w