Do some common-sense cleanups:

 - standardize on the kernel coding style consistently

 - tabulate definitions consistently

 - extend and clarify various descriptions

 - fix speling

 - update the header guard name according to the new position

 - etc.

No change in functionality.

Cc: Alex Thorlton <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Huang, Ying <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Jackson <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/e820/types.h | 84 
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/e820/types.h 
b/arch/x86/include/asm/e820/types.h
index 9dafe59cf6e2..cfa8f4a19b5d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/e820/types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/e820/types.h
@@ -1,18 +1,30 @@
-#ifndef _UAPI_ASM_X86_E820_H
-#define _UAPI_ASM_X86_E820_H
-#define E820MAP        0x2d0           /* our map */
-#define E820MAX        128             /* number of entries in E820MAP */
+#ifndef _ASM_E820_TYPES_H
+#define _ASM_E820_TYPES_H
+
+/* Our map: */
+#define E820MAP                        0x2d0
+
+/* The maximum number of entries in E820MAP: */
+#define E820MAX                        128
 
 /*
- * Legacy E820 BIOS limits us to 128 (E820MAX) nodes due to the
- * constrained space in the zeropage.  If we have more nodes than
- * that, and if we've booted off EFI firmware, then the EFI tables
- * passed us from the EFI firmware can list more nodes.  Size our
- * internal memory map tables to have room for these additional
- * nodes, based on up to three entries per node for which the
- * kernel was built: MAX_NUMNODES == (1 << CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT),
- * plus E820MAX, allowing space for the possible duplicate E820
- * entries that might need room in the same arrays, prior to the
+ * The legacy E820 BIOS limits us to 128 (E820MAX) nodes due to the
+ * constrained space in the zeropage.
+ *
+ * On large systems we can easily have thousands of nodes with RAM,
+ * which cannot be fit into so few entries - so we have a mechanism
+ * to extend the e820 table size at build-time, via the E820_X_MAX
+ * define below.
+ *
+ * ( Those extra entries are enumerated via the EFI memory map, not
+ *   via the legacy zeropage mechanism. )
+ *
+ * Size our internal memory map tables to have room for these additional
+ * entries, based on a heuristic calculation: up to three entries per
+ * NUMA node, plus E820MAX for some extra space.
+ *
+ * This allows for bootstrap/firmware quirks such as possible duplicate
+ * E820 entries that might need room in the same arrays, prior to the
  * call to sanitize_e820_map() to remove duplicates.  The allowance
  * of three memory map entries per node is "enough" entries for
  * the initial hardware platform motivating this mechanism to make
@@ -20,19 +32,19 @@
  * to allow more than three entries per node or otherwise refine
  * this size.
  */
-
 #ifndef __KERNEL__
-#define E820_X_MAX E820MAX
+# define E820_X_MAX            E820MAX
 #endif
 
-#define E820NR 0x1e8           /* # entries in E820MAP */
+/* Number of entries in E820MAP: */
+#define E820NR                 0x1e8
 
-#define E820_RAM       1
-#define E820_RESERVED  2
-#define E820_ACPI      3
-#define E820_NVS       4
-#define E820_UNUSABLE  5
-#define E820_PMEM      7
+#define E820_RAM               1
+#define E820_RESERVED          2
+#define E820_ACPI              3
+#define E820_NVS               4
+#define E820_UNUSABLE          5
+#define E820_PMEM              7
 
 /*
  * This is a non-standardized way to represent ADR or NVDIMM regions that
@@ -43,7 +55,7 @@
  *   but newer versions switched to 12 as 6 was assigned differently.  Some
  *   time they will learn... )
  */
-#define E820_PRAM      12
+#define E820_PRAM              12
 
 /*
  * reserved RAM used by kernel itself
@@ -51,23 +63,34 @@
  * included in the S3 integrity calculation and so should not include
  * any memory that BIOS might alter over the S3 transition
  */
-#define E820_RESERVED_KERN        128
+#define E820_RESERVED_KERN     128
 
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 #include <linux/types.h>
+
+/*
+ * A single E820 map entry, describing a memory range of [addr...addr+size-1],
+ * of 'type' memory type:
+ */
 struct e820entry {
-       __u64 addr;     /* start of memory segment */
-       __u64 size;     /* size of memory segment */
-       __u32 type;     /* type of memory segment */
+       __u64 addr;
+       __u64 size;
+       __u32 type;
 } __attribute__((packed));
 
+/*
+ * The whole array of E820 entries:
+ */
 struct e820map {
        __u32 nr_map;
        struct e820entry map[E820_X_MAX];
 };
 
-#define ISA_START_ADDRESS      0xa0000
-#define ISA_END_ADDRESS                0x100000
+/*
+ * Various legacy ranges in physical memory:
+ */
+#define ISA_START_ADDRESS      0x000a0000
+#define ISA_END_ADDRESS                0x00100000
 
 #define BIOS_BEGIN             0x000a0000
 #define BIOS_END               0x00100000
@@ -77,5 +100,4 @@ struct e820map {
 
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
 
-
-#endif /* _UAPI_ASM_X86_E820_H */
+#endif /* _ASM_E820_TYPES_H */
-- 
2.7.4

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