Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:46:32 +0200 | From | Bernhard Walle <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] Limit E820 map when a user-defined memory map is specified |
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* "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> [2008-06-20 13:34]: > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> wrote: > > This patch brings back limiting of the E820 map when a user-defined > > E820 map is specified. While the behaviour of i386 (32 bit) was to limit > > the E820 map (and /proc/iomem), the behaviour of x86-64 (64 bit) was not to > > limit. > > then if you kexec new kernel, the second kernel will be have that > limitation too. > > any problem that you encountered without this patch?
No, because the new kexec tool uses the /proc/firmware_mem or whatever it is called.
Bernhard -- Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development
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