Subject: Re: [PATCH] [arch-x86] Allow SRAT integrity check to be skipped

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:09:16 -0700

On 09/01/2010 03:11 PM, Peter P Waskiewicz Jr wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 15:04 -0700, [email-masked] wrote:
>> On Wed, September 1, 2010 2:33 pm, Peter P Waskiewicz Jr wrote:
>>> Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt |    4 ++++
>>> arch/x86/mm/srat_64.c                     |   20 +++++++++++++++++--- 2
>>> files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/srat_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/srat_64.c index
>>> f9897f7..8719472 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/srat_64.c
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/srat_64.c
>>> @@ -351,6 +351,15 @@ int __init acpi_get_nodes(struct bootnode *physnodes)
>>>  return ret; }
>>>
>>>
>>> +int srat_bypass_bios = 0;
>>
>> static int srat_bypass_bios;
>>
>> Don't need to init to 0.
> 
> I'll fix and send a second version.  Thanks Randy.
> 

Should be static *bool* srat_bypass_bios;

Please use bool for actual booleans; it prevents someone from being
"smart" and using values like 2 or -1 for "special cases".

	-hpa