Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:26:46 +0200 | From | Bernhard Walle <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/2] Protect crashkernel against BSS overlap |
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* Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> [2007-10-16 11:59]: > Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> writes: > > > Wouldn't it be better if we reserve the code, data and bss memory also > > using bootmem allocator and when somebody tries to reserve craskernel memory > > and if there is an overlap, boot memory allocator should scream? > > Some x86 bootmem code right now relies on it not screaming (or at least not > erroring out). That would need to be fixed first. Or you make it a flag. > Would probably make sense, except that we already have too many bootmem > allocation variants :/
Ok, I made a flag, see the next version of the patch.
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