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@ 2008-08-24 22:43 Yinghai Lu
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From: Yinghai Lu @ 2008-08-24 22:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar, Thomas Gleixner, H. Peter Anvin, Andrew Morton
  Cc: linux-kernel, Yinghai Lu, Bernhard Walle, Vivek Goyal,
	Eric W. Biederman

may need user to have new kexec tools that could create e820 table
from /sys/firmware/memmap instead of /proc/iomem for second kernel

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
@@ -1279,6 +1279,10 @@ void __init e820_reserve_resources(void)
 
 	res = alloc_bootmem_low(sizeof(struct resource) * e820.nr_map);
 	for (i = 0; i < e820.nr_map; i++) {
+		if (e820.map[i].type != E820_RAM) {
+			res++;
+			continue;
+		}
 		end = e820.map[i].addr + e820.map[i].size - 1;
 #ifndef CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT
 		if (end > 0x100000000ULL) {

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