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Message-ID: <20110608210623.GA32056@srcf.ucam.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:06:23 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.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 Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 01:46:45PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 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.
We have no way of telling which regions those are until they've been
called.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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