On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:04:21 +0100, Tomasz Figa tomasz.figa@gmail.com wrote:
On 11.02.2014 21:02, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 19:01 +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
except that the former IMHO better suits the definition of memory region, which I see as a single contiguous range of memory and can be simplified to have a single reg entry per region.
My point is rather if multiple reg tuples are found in a reserved memory node, the kernel must respect them and reserve the memory. I'm not arguing about whether or not that makes for a good binding.
agreed.
My point is why, if the binding defines that just a single tuple should be provided.
It's irrelevant because it gets processed at a different level. It's important that the core early setup code can quickly parse all the reserved regions without having any idea what the end-user binding is. Multiple reg tuples is just fine in this regard.
Whether or not multiple tuples makes sense is defined for each particular use case by the driver actually using it without impacting core initialization code one iota.
g.