Re: kexec regression since 4.9 caused by efi

Matt Fleming
2017-03-17T13:32:32Z

On Fri, 17 Mar, at 10:09:51AM, Dave Young wrote:
>
> Matt, I think it should be fine although I think the md type checking in
> efi_mem_desc_lookup() is causing confusion and not easy to understand..

Could you make that a separate patch if you think of improvements
there?

> How about move the if chunk early like below because it seems no need
> to sanity check the addr + size any more if the md is still RUNTIME?

My original version did as you suggest, but I changed it because we
*really* want to know if someone tries to reserve a range that spans
regions. That would be totally unexpected and a warning about a
potential bug/issue.