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Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:43:44 -0700 From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com> To: Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/efi: Only pass mapped RAM regions to free_bootmem_late() On 06/05/2014 06:27 AM, Matt Fleming wrote: > free_bootmem_late() expects to only be passed RAM regions that the > kernel can access, and that have a corresponding 'struct page'. It's > possible for regions in the EFI memory map to reside in address ranges > for which pfn_to_page() doesn't work, for instance when running on an > i386 system with CONFIG_HIGHMEM=n. FWIW, I think there are also a bunch of ways to hit this if someone uses mem=, even on 64-bit. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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