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Message-ID: <4DF259B2.9070403@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:51:46 +0200
From: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@...il.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
CC: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, Jim Bos <jim876@...all.nl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system
Well,
Op 10-06-11 18:47, Matthew Garrett schreef:
> So this is obviously even more of a hack, but before you check whether
> the memblock has already been reserved could you __check_region it as
> well? That ought to avoid us touching the kernel. I've got a patch for
> grub that'll avoid the situation where we load the kernel on top of an
> existing resource and I'll port that to grub2, but that's still going to
> be awkward for existing bootloaders.
>
Erm, __check_region calls __requestion_region which does a kzalloc,
if I call __check_region it doesn't boot, probably because of that.
Do you want me to manually run through iomem_resource? Is it even available up at that point?
~Maarten
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