On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 10:42:11PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > Hi Vivek, > > * Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> [2008-06-09 16:29]: > > > > Can you please put some more explanation comment here to explain that > > why it is ok to return with success, despite the fact that we never > > reserved any memory. > > Do you think that's ok? > > When booting the kdump kernel, the MP tables (for example, > or other firmware-reserved memory) of the BIOS are beyond > end_pfn. (kexec-tools adds exactmap parameters to the kernel > so that the E820 map is no longer used.) Therefore, it's ok > to return "success" here. For normal boot, the MP tables > must be reserved normally. > Looks good. Thanks Vivek
