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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: make sure wakeup code is below 1M -v2
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On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 11:12 +0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> ykzhao wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 03:05 +0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >> ykzhao wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 10:27 +0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >>>> try to find_e820_area/reserve_early, and call acpi_reserve_memory early
> >>>>
> >>>> to get area is below 1M
> >>>>
> >>>> -v2: change function name to acpi_reserve_wakeup_memory according to Rafael
> >>> It seems that the function of find_e820_area is called in several
> >>> places.
> >>> >Initmem_init: bootmap = find_e820_area(0, end_pfn<<PAGE_SHIFT,
> >>> bootmap_size, PAGE_SIZE);
> >>>
> >>> If we also call it in the acpi_reserve_wakeup_memory, do we get the same
> >>> base address as that obtained in initmem_init?
> >> no. find_e820_area will check the reserve res array that could be updated by reserve_early.
> > It will check the reserved region array when calling the function of
> > find_e820_area.
> > But it seems that the array is not updated when the find_e820_area is
> > called in the function of initmem_init.
>
> right after that will use reserve_bootmem for those range in initmem_init.
Yes. The reserve_bootmem is called for the range in initmem_init.
But the reserved_early array is not updated.
>
> also we could reserve_early there and let bootmem conversion to do that for us.
>
> but for numa there is some chance to use other node bootmem to for that bootdata and bitmap.
> so make it simple just use reserve_bootmem there.
>
> YH



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