* Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] IA64 kexec-tools: efi_memmap overflow on large systems
@ 2007-02-01 2:46 Horms
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From: Horms @ 2007-02-01 2:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 05:54:22PM -0800, Jay Lan wrote:
> This patch fixes a efi_memmap overflow problem on large system.
> Currently the kexec allocates statically 16k buffer to contain
> efi_memmap. It can hold about 333 entries. It causes data
> corruption on large system.
>
> This patch would let kexec allocate the efi_memmap at run time using
> the actual size allocated in the production kernel.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Thanks, applied.
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