Re: [PATCH] Limit E820 map and /proc/iomem for mem parameter on x86-64

2008-06-11 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:53:25PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: This patch tries to unify the behaviour of i386 and x86-64 when parsing the memory (mem/memmap) parameter of the kernel command line: On i386, the view was limited (i.e. the actual view was presented). On x86-64, the view was

Re: [PATCH] Limit E820 map and /proc/iomem for mem parameter on x86-64

2008-06-11 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Vivek Goyal [2008-06-11 11:39]: Also I would like to have another interface (say /proc/iomem_kernel)which actually gets modified based on the user specified options. So effectively we can have both the views. BIOS view and user defined view. Yes, of course, I just don't have time to work

Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] kexec jump -v11: save/restore device state

2008-06-11 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 03:15:06PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote: This patch implements devices state save/restore before after kexec. This patch together with features in kexec_jump patch can be used for following: - A simple hibernation implementation without ACPI support. You can kexec