Re: [PATCH] x86: ioremap mptable -v2

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Mar 02 2009 - 05:20:45 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > } else if (mpf->physptr) {
> > + struct mpc_table *mpc;
> > + unsigned long size;
> >
> > + mpc = early_ioremap(mpf->physptr, PAGE_SIZE);
> > + size = mpc->length;
> > + apic_printk(APIC_VERBOSE, " mpc: %lx-%lx\n", (unsigned long)mpf->physptr,
> > + mpf->physptr + size);
> > + early_iounmap(mpc, PAGE_SIZE);
> > + mpc = early_ioremap(mpf->physptr, size);
>
> no objections, but this bit of __get_smp_config() needs to be
> done cleaner - the whole mpf->physptr != 0 bit should probably
> go into a helper function.

and if you do that it should be done via two patches, in two
steps: first patch is a pure cleanup that moves this bit of
__get_smp_config() into a helper function. The second patch then
adds the early_ioremap().

Ingo
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