Re: aperture_64.c: corner case wrong

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Try to convert comments in aperture_64.c closer to
english. Unfortunately, I was not able to understand some of the
sentences :-(. Help welcome.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
index 5373f78..183d907 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
@@ -75,21 +75,20 @@ static u32 __init allocate_aperture(void
 	/*
 	 * Aperture has to be naturally aligned. This means a 2GB aperture
 	 * won't have much chance of finding a place in the lower 4GB of
-	 * memory. Unfortunately we cannot move it up because that would
+	 * memory. Unfortunately, we cannot move it up because that would
 	 * make the IOMMU useless.
-	 */
-	/*
-	 * using 512M as goal, in case kexec will load kernel_big
+	 *
+	 * Using 512M as goal, in case kexec will load kernel_big
 	 * that will do the on position decompress, and  could overlap with
 	 * that positon with gart that is used.
-	 * sequende:
+	 * sequence:
 	 * kernel_small
 	 * ==> kexec (with kdump trigger path or previous doesn't shutdown gart)
-	 * ==> kernel_small(gart area become e820_reserved)
+	 * ==> kernel_small (gart area becomes e820_reserved)
 	 * ==> kexec (with kdump trigger path or previous doesn't shutdown gart)
-	 * ==> kerne_big (uncompressed size will be big than 64M or 128M)
+	 * ==> kernel_big (uncompressed size will be bigger than 64M or 128M)
 	 * so don't use 512M below as gart iommu, leave the space for kernel
-	 * code for safe
+	 * code to be safe.
 	 */
 	p = __alloc_bootmem_nopanic(aper_size, aper_size, 512ULL<<20);
 	if (!p || __pa(p)+aper_size > 0xffffffff) {
@@ -262,14 +261,15 @@ early_param("gart_fix_e820", parse_gart_
 void __init early_gart_iommu_check(void)
 {
 	/*
-	 * in case it is enabled before, esp for kexec/kdump,
-	 * previous kernel already enable that. memset called
-	 * by allocate_aperture/__alloc_bootmem_nopanic cause restart.
-	 * or second kernel have different position for GART hole. and new
+	 * In case it is enabled before, esp for kexec/kdump,
+	 * previous kernel already enabled that. memset called
+	 * by allocate_aperture/__alloc_bootmem_nopanic causes restart.
+	 * Or second kernel could have different position for GART hole, and new
 	 * kernel could use hole as RAM that is still used by GART set by
-	 * first kernel
-	 * or BIOS forget to put that in reserved.
-	 * try to update e820 to make that region as reserved.
+	 * first kernel.
+	 * Or maybe BIOS forgot to put that in reserved.
+	 *
+	 * Try to update e820 to make that region as reserved.
 	 */
 	int fix, slot;
 	u32 ctl;


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