linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86 boot: add E820_RESVD

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:53:23 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, andi@...stfloor.org,
	mingo@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86 boot: add E820_RESVD_KERN

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> * Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> > For find_e820_area, this is safe enough. But what about conflict
>> > between setup_data and ebda or ramdisk?
>>
>> can you have setup_data and ebda at the same time?
>>
>> setup_data and ramdisk should be ok, because bootloader is supposed to
>> make them not to be conflicts.
>
> the more sanity checks we do before relying on some crutial data, the
> better. It's easier to panic or sanitize data in some structured way and
> complain about it in the syslog than to let things get corrupted. Boot
> loaders are ... not unknown to be have bugs too, at times.

to address Ying's concern, we could let reserve_setup_data
call reserve_early in addition to e820_update_range...

reserve_early will panic if RAMDISK overlap efi setup_data...

YH
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