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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-01-28 12:07:49 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-01-28 16:42:27 +0300 |
| commit | 544a0f47e7803443980496d6c9ae78b6c2b3dbcb (patch) | |
| tree | b94c5956f62078aaad076f9a3b64bbac98700924 /arch/x86/include/asm/e820 | |
| parent | 103e206309639b615981e56008720806b4a102af (diff) | |
| download | linux-544a0f47e7803443980496d6c9ae78b6c2b3dbcb.tar.xz | |
x86/boot/e820: Rename e820_table_saved to e820_table_firmware and improve the description
So the 'e820_table_saved' is a bit of a misnomer that hides its real purpose.
At first sight the name suggests that it's some sort save/restore mechanism,
as this is how we typically name such facilities in the kernel.
But that is not so, e820_table_saved is the original firmware version of the
e820 table, not modified by the kernel. This table is displayed in the
/sys/firmware/memmap file, and it's also used by the hibernation code to
calculate a physical memory layout MD5 fingerprint checksum which is
invariant of the kernel.
So rename it to 'e820_table_firmware' and update all the comments to better
describe the main e820 data strutures.
Also rename:
'initial_e820_table_saved' => 'e820_table_firmware_init'
'e820_update_range_saved' => 'e820_update_range_firmware'
... to better match the new nomenclature.
No change in functionality.
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/e820')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/e820/api.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/e820/api.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/e820/api.h index 2a6de16ad9b5..2c336d8a8593 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/e820/api.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/e820/api.h @@ -3,9 +3,8 @@ #include <asm/e820/types.h> -/* see comment in arch/x86/kernel/e820.c */ extern struct e820_table *e820_table; -extern struct e820_table *e820_table_saved; +extern struct e820_table *e820_table_firmware; extern unsigned long pci_mem_start; |