Re: [patch] x86, pat: fix free_memtype() for legacy 1MB range

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> wrote:

> -	is_range_ram = pagerange_is_ram(start, end);
> -	if (is_range_ram == 1)
> -		return free_ram_pages_type(start, end);
> -	else if (is_range_ram < 0)
> -		return -EINVAL;
> +	/*
> +	 * For legacy reasons, some parts of the physical address range in the
> +	 * legacy 1MB region is treated as non-RAM (even when listed as RAM in
> +	 * the e820 tables).  So we will track the memory attributes of this
> +	 * legacy 1MB region using the linear memtype_list always.
> +	 */
> +	if (end >= ISA_END_ADDRESS) {
> +		is_range_ram = pagerange_is_ram(start, end);
> +		if (is_range_ram == 1)
> +			return free_ram_pages_type(start, end);
> +		else if (is_range_ram < 0)
> +			return -EINVAL;
> +	}

this logic is now repeated in an open-coded way in two places in pat.c. 
Could you please send another delta patch that consolidates them into a 
single helper function, which is used both in free_memtype() and 
reserve_memtype()?

Thanks,

	Ingo