linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Find mirrored memory, use for boot time allocations

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Message-Id: <20150506162916.d19f9d82cecd0d96897d7835@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 6 May 2015 16:29:16 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Find mirrored memory, use for boot time allocations

On Mon, 4 May 2015 13:52:23 -0700 Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com> wrote:

> UEFI published the spec that descibes the attribute bit we need to
> find out which memory ranges are mirrored. So time to post the real
> version of this series.

Can we please have an explanation for why we're doing this?  Reading
further I see that the intent is to put kernel data structures into
mirrored memory.  Why is this a good thing?


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