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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 00:07:58 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>, x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/urgent for v5.13-rc5
On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 02:23:21PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 1:58 PM Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > A while ago hpa said:
> >
> > As far as I know, Windows 7 actually reserves all memory below
> > 1 MiB to avoid BIOS bugs.
> >
> > (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16661#c2)
>
> It would be good to have that checked somehow.
>
> I don't think this matters on any machine with gigs of RAM, but I do
> wonder about the people who want to do small configurations. Maybe
> they've given up on x86?
>
> It also eats into that somewhat precious legacy DMA resource and eats
> up a fair chunk of that. Again, not an issue on modern hardware, but
> ..
>
> > I believe that reserving everything below 1M after the real mode trampoline
> > is allocated reduces amount of hidden dependencies and makes things simpler
> > overall.
>
> Simpler, perhaps, and _I_ personally don't care about about 512kB of
> memory any more on any machines I have, but ..
Let's see if Sasha can dig out something... CCed.
@Sasha, can you figure out who we can talk to whether Windoze reserves
the first megabyte of memory unconditionally?
Thx.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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