From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>,
catalin.marinas@arm.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
anshuman.khandual@arm.com, linuxarm@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: add support for memmap kernel parameters
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:15:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201118191528.GA2680@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201118173854.GA8537@kernel.org>
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 07:38:54PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 07:33:14PM +1300, Barry Song wrote:
> > memmap should be an useful kernel parameter which has been supported by
> > x86, mips and xtensa.
>
> Why is this parameter should be useful for ARM64?
> My understanding is that it is required only to work around really
> broken bootloaders, isn't it?
Agreed, I can't see this being something we really want to support. If it
turns out that it is generally useful, then the implementation should
probably be somewhere outside of arch/ where I don't have to look at it :)
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-18 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-18 6:33 Barry Song
2020-11-18 17:38 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-11-18 19:15 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2020-11-18 20:25 ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2020-11-18 22:38 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-11-18 23:55 ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2020-11-19 7:57 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-11-19 8:37 ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
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