x86/boot/e820: Simplify append_e820_table() and remove restriction on single-entry tables
So append_e820_table() begins with this weird condition that checks 'nr_entries':
static int __init append_e820_table(struct boot_e820_entry *entries, u32 nr_entries)
{
/* Only one memory region (or negative)? Ignore it */
if (nr_entries < 2)
return -1;
Firstly, 'nr_entries' has been an u32 since 2017 and cannot be negative.
Secondly, there's nothing inherently wrong with single-entry E820 maps,
especially in virtualized environments.
So remove this restriction and remove the __append_e820_table()
indirection.
Also:
- fix/update comments
- remove obsolete comments
This shrinks the generated code a bit as well:
text data bss dec hex filename
7549 44072 0 51621 c9a5 e820.o.before
7533 44072 0 51605 c995 e820.o.after
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: H . Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250515120549.2820541-26-mingo@kernel.org