Re: [PATCH v7 0/2] Dynamic Allocation of the reserved_mem array

[Andy Shevchenko]

Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 04:55:49PM -0500, Rob Herring kirjoitti:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 12:23 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> > This series (in particular the first patch) broke boot on Intel Meteor
> > Lake-P. Taking Linux next of 20240819 with these being reverted makes
> > things work again.
> 
> Looks like this provides some detail:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/202408192157.8d8fe8a9-oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx/
> 
> I've dropped the patches for now.

Thank you, that's what I have asked for!

> > Taking into account bisectability issue (that's how I noticed the issue
> > in the first place) I think it would be nice to have no such patches at
> > all in the respective subsystem tree. On my side I may help with testing
> > whatever solution or next version provides.
> 
> I don't follow what you are asking for? That the patches should be
> bisectable? Well, yes, of course, but I don't verify that typically.
> Patch 1 builds fine for m, so I'm not sure what issue you see.

There are two types of bisectability:
1) compile-time;
2) run-time.

People often forgot about #2 and that's exactly what I'm complaining about.
Due to bisecting another thing, I have stumbled over this issue.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko