| Date | Mon, 25 Jul 2022 15:02:50 +0200 | | From | Borislav Petkov <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCHv7 04/14] efi/x86: Get full memory map in allocate_e820() |
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 03:02:21PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > Currently allocate_e820() only interested in the size of map and size of ^ is
> memory descriptor to determine how many e820 entries the kernel needs. > > UEFI Specification version 2.9 introduces a new memory type -- > unaccepted memory. To track unaccepted memory kernel needs to allocate > a bitmap. The size of the bitmap is dependent on the maximum physical > address present in the system. A full memory map is required to find > the maximum address. > > Modify allocate_e820() to get a full memory map. > > This is preparation for the next patch that implements handling of > unaccepted memory in EFI stub.
As already pointed out, the concept of "next patch" is ambiguous in git. Just drop the whole sentence.
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> > --- > drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c | 28 +++++++++++-------------- > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
With the above addressed:
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Thx.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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