[PATCH v3 2/2] kexec: Provide arch_kexec_protect(unprotect)_crashkres()

[Minfei Huang]

On 01/08/16 at 09:28pm, Xunlei Pang wrote:
> On 01/08/2016 at 04:47 PM, Minfei Huang wrote:
> > On 01/08/16 at 10:33am, Xunlei Pang wrote:
> >> +
> >> +static int
> >> +kexec_mark_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, bool protect)
> >> +{
> >> +	struct page *page;
> >> +	unsigned int nr_pages;
> >> +
> >> +	/* For physical range: [start, end] */
> >> +	if (!end || start > end)
> >> +		return 0;
> > This test !end is hard to be understood without the annotation. It is
> > better to add the comment about it.
> 
> !end is just for uninitialized crashk resource with a zero end member,
> maybe not so hard to understand :-)

Yes, The test !end may be simple, if someone knows the logic of kexec.
But it's hard to be understood, if there is only a glance from someone
without any annotation.

This test !end is related to the specific code flow, so it is better to
annotate it.

Thanks
Minfei

> 
> Regards,
> Xunlei
> 
> >
> > Otherwise it looks good for me.