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From: Matt Fleming <matt-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/efi: defer efi_esrt_init until after
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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 13:17:05 +0100
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On Tue, 16 Aug, at 05:32:31PM, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> Commit 7b02d53e7852 ("efi: Allow drivers to reserve boot services forever")
> introduced a new efi_mem_reserve to reserve the boot services memory
> regions forever. This reservation involves allocating a new EFI memory
> range descriptor. However, allocation can only succeed if there is memory
> available for the allocation. Otherwise, error such as the following may
> occur:
> 
> esrt: Reserving ESRT space from 0x000000003dd6a000 to 0x000000003dd6a010.
> Kernel panic - not syncing: ERROR: Failed to allocate 0x9f0 bytes below \
>  0x0.
 
Thanks Ricardo. Applied to 'next'.