Re: [PATCH 4/6] pstore/ram: Add some more documentation and examples

From: Anton Vorontsov
Date: Wed May 16 2012 - 18:13:11 EST


On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:56:09AM -0700, Colin Cross wrote:
[...]
> > +You can specify either RAM memory or peripheral devices' memory. However, when
> > +specifying RAM, be sure to reserve the memory by issuing memblock_reserve()
> > +very early in the architecture code, just before platform device registration,
>
> Just before platform device registration is way too late. ARM
> provides a machine reserve callback to allow board files to call
> memblock_reserve inside arm_memblock_init() and before mm_init().

Yeah, and I guess that 'too late' is also true for all architectures,
the platform_device_register and friends are most probably unusable
before mm_init, and after that it's always too late.

So the word 'just' is misleading indeed, I'll remove it.

Thanks!

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