Re: [PATCH] x86: ioremap mptable -v2

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Mar 02 2009 - 15:29:43 EST



* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> V3: according to Ingo, seperate get_mpc_size()

No, that was not my suggestion. My suggestion was to separate
this whole 'else if' branch:

> } else if (mpf->physptr) {
> + struct mpc_table *mpc;
> + unsigned long size;
>
> + size = get_mpc_size(mpf->physptr);
> + mpc = early_ioremap(mpf->physptr, size);
> /*
> * Read the physical hardware table. Anything here will
> * override the defaults.
> */
> - if (!smp_read_mpc(phys_to_virt(mpf->physptr), early)) {
> + if (!smp_read_mpc(mpc, early)) {
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
> smp_found_config = 0;
> #endif

... into a helper function - if that improves the code. Your
patch does early_ioremap, iounmap then ioremap and iounmap -
quite pointlessly.

You should resist cleanup suggestions that make the code worse,
even if it comes from a maintainer :-)

Ingo
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