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SubjectRe: Memory detection is still broken in 2.3.36
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Jamie Lokier wrote:

> fwiw, this comment (Some biosities report...) in mm/init.c is in the
> wrong place.

It's gone.

> I'd be inclined to put all the e820 corrections in one place, perhaps by
> altering the map in setup_memory_region. How about defining a new type
> E820_UNUSABLE and changing broken usable regions to unusable ones, so
> they show up in the log.

Linus has expressed a preference for keeping the e820 map intact,
so that sort of patch might not fly very far. In any case, the
recent patches (both my memory detect patch and Nathan's big
memory region merge/paranoia/acpi reclaim/kmem= patch) both massage
the bios data into a second array of memory regions, all of which
have been sanitized for your protection.


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david parsons \bi/ beware e820. It lies to you.
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