On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 20:44 +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> * Dave Hansen <[email protected]> [2007-10-16 20:08]:
> > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 18:28 +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > >
> > > @@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ static int __init smp_scan_config (unsig
> > > smp_found_config = 1;
> > > printk(KERN_INFO "found SMP MP-table at %08lx\n",
> > > virt_to_phys(mpf));
> > > - reserve_bootmem(virt_to_phys(mpf), PAGE_SIZE);
> > > + reserve_bootmem(virt_to_phys(mpf), PAGE_SIZE, 0);
> > > if (mpf->mpf_physptr) {
> > > /*
> >
> > Could you give all of these 0's a name? I really hate seeing random
> > magic numbers in these things. 0 completely kills the ability of
> > someone to read the code and figure out what it is trying to do without
> > going and looking at reserve_bootmem().
>
> Of course I can replace that zeroes with something like BOOTMEM_DEFAULT.
Cool.
> > Or, alternatively, do something like this:
> >
> > -extern void reserve_bootmem(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size);
>
> Andi was against more bootmem functions. ;)
Yeah, I can't really blame him.
-- Dave
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