linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system

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Date:	Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:46:45 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
CC:	Jim Bos <jim876@...all.nl>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system

On 06/08/2011 01:42 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 01:36:57PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
>> or just let bootloader to mark those boot services just like run-time services in e820 table or setupdata?
> 
> That was my original approach, but if there's boot services code at the 
> top of RAM it means that max_pfn is wrong and it's difficult to recover 
> the memory.

not all boot services ram.  just those are called by run-time services code.

Yinghai
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