From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Horms Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:46:25 +0000 Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] IA64 kexec-tools: efi_memmap overflow on large systems Message-Id: <20070201024623.GA20278@verge.net.au> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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 Thanks, applied. -- Horms H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/