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From: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Confusions with reserve_early, reserve_bootmem, e820, efi, ... on x86_64
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:59:39 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1213318779.20431.3.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080612050609.88a8cf7f.pj@sgi.com>

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 05:06 -0500, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Bernhard, Johannes, Huang, and Yinghai:
> 
> I am running into some complications with reserve_bootmem vs
> reserve_early, and a reserve_early of "EFI memmap" in the
> efi_reserve_early() routine conflicting with reserve_early of
> "BIOS reserved" in reserve_ebda_region().
> 
> This is on x86_64 arch, using Ingo's x86-latest, with possibly
> still buggy EFI firmware in a lab system I'm helping to develop.
> 
> I have three concerns:
> 
>  1) The find_overlapped_early() check called from reserve_early is
>     failing on my lab system , causing panic, when it tries to
>     register "EFI memmap" at addresses <0xe0660, 0xe0778> that
>     overlaps with the "BIOS reserved" early reserve at addresses
>     <0x9f000, 0x100000>

I think this can be resolved by avoiding memory area <0x9f000, 0x100000>
when allocating memory for EFI memory map in boot-loader.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying



      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-13  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-12 10:06 Confusions with reserve_early, reserve_bootmem, e820, efi, ... on x86_64 Paul Jackson
2008-06-12 12:25 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-06-12 16:19   ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-12 17:05     ` Yinghai Lu
2008-06-12 20:10       ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-12 20:29         ` Yinghai Lu
2008-06-12 21:09           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-12 21:52             ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-12 22:06               ` Yinghai Lu
2008-06-12 22:13                 ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-12 22:39               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-13  0:59 ` Huang, Ying [this message]

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