Re: [PATCH v8] x86/setup: get ramdisk parameters only once

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 03:04:36PM +0600, Alexander Kuleshov wrote:
> The check and definitions related to ramdisk are similar in the
> early_reserve_initrd() and reserve_initrd() functions.
> 
> This patch introduces struct ramdisk which contains information
> about initrd. This structure will be filled in the setup_arch()
> and passed to the reserve_initrd() and relocate_initrd() functions.
> 
> This allows us to not get/check ramdisk parameters from the bootparams
> every time in the early_reserve_initrd(), reserve_initrd() and
> relocate_initrd() function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@xxxxxxxxx>

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>  arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 107 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

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