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x86/boot/e820: Print E820_TYPE_RAM entries as ... RAM entries
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 15 May 2025 12:05:24 +0000 (14:05 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sun, 14 Dec 2025 08:19:38 +0000 (09:19 +0100)
So it is a bit weird that the actual RAM entries of the E820 table
are not actually called RAM, but 'usable':

BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x000000007ffdbfff]    1.9 GB usable

'usable' is pretty passive-aggressive in that context and ambiguous,
most E820 entries denote 'usable' address ranges - reserved ranges
may be used by devices, or the platform.

Clarify and disambiguate this by making the boot log entry
explicitly say 'System RAM', like in /proc/iomem:

BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x000000007ffdbfff]    1.9 GB System RAM

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.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>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250515120549.2820541-9-mingo@kernel.org
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c

index 58001536ba7cadb2358912a3f1ff816d224d14a5..b0efa4bf063252a0fb9552462862c025163e955f 100644 (file)
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ void __init e820__range_add(u64 start, u64 size, enum e820_type type)
 static void __init e820_print_type(enum e820_type type)
 {
        switch (type) {
-       case E820_TYPE_RAM:             pr_cont(" usable");                     break;
+       case E820_TYPE_RAM:             pr_cont(" System RAM");                 break;
        case E820_TYPE_RESERVED:        pr_cont(" reserved");                   break;
        case E820_TYPE_SOFT_RESERVED:   pr_cont(" soft reserved");              break;
        case E820_TYPE_ACPI:            pr_cont(" ACPI data");                  break;