linux-kernel - Re: Ugly patches for stolen reservation

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Message-ID: <51F2DBDD.8020709@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:28:13 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CC:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Ugly patches for stolen reservation

On 07/26/2013 01:24 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> Am I being too pedantic in expecting that we still mark it 
> e820-reserved?
> 
> This area really isnt an ordinary PCI resource such as a 
> BAR or an MMIO region. It's truly system RAM (which cannot 
> be moved/reallocated), used by graphics hardware, and the 
> firmware should have marked it reserved.
> 
> (The end result should be the same in any case, so this is 
> a detail.)
> 

I, too, would prefer to see it marked as reserved.

	-hpa


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