Re: [PATCH] memmap: Parse "Reserved" together with "reserved"

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Apr 26 2017 - 02:23:03 EST



* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> For x86 with recent kernel after
> commit 640e1b38b0 ("x86/boot/e820: Basic cleanup of e820.c")
> change "reserved" to "Reserved" in /sys firmware memmap and /proc/iomem.
>
> So here, we add handling for that too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c | 2 ++
> kexec/arch/ia64/kexec-ia64.c | 2 ++
> kexec/arch/mips/kexec-mips.c | 2 ++
> kexec/firmware_memmap.c | 2 ++
> 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

I'd rather fix the bug I introduced and undo the reserved->Reserved string change
in e820.c: I didn't realize that it's exposed in sysfs and had quasi-ABI
consequences for kexec.

Agreed?

Thanks,

Ingo