Ingo Molnar
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So the 'e820_table_saved' is a bit of a misnomer that hides its real purpose. At first sight the name suggests that it's some sort save/restore mechanism, as this is how we typically name such facilities in the kernel. But that is not so, e820_table_saved is the original firmware version of the e820 table, not modified by the kernel. This table is displayed in the /sys/firmware/memmap file, and it's also used by the hibernation code to calculate a physical memory layout MD5 fingerprint checksum which is invariant of the kernel. So rename it to 'e820_table_firmware' and update all the comments to better describe the main e820 data strutures. Also rename: 'initial_e820_table_saved' => 'e820_table_firmware_init' 'e820_update_range_saved' => 'e820_update_range_firmware' ... to better match the new nomenclature. No change in functionality. Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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