On 04/10/14 at 05:12pm, WANG Chao wrote: > Hi, all > > (Sorry for this late update. I was occupied with something else) > > This patchset enables passing memory map via E820 map on x86 platform instead > of memmap=exactmap. It's a better design and will solve the following problem > so far: > > - kernel cmdline is limited resource and large machines tend to have many > memory ranges that may excceed kernel cmdline limit size. > - kASLR doesn't work with memmap=exactmap, because kASLR happens early than > user defined memmap=exactmap takes effect. > > Unfortunately, saved_max_pfn still got its user out there (calgry pci, it looks > like the only one). So for backward compatibility, I'm introducing a new option > --pass-memmap-cmdline to force kexec-tools to pass memmap=exactmap, the old way. > > This patchset contains massive updates from the previous one. I take some > suggestions from reviewers. I try to split the changes into smaller pieces and > keep the whole change as minimal as I can so it wouldn't be too harsh to review > the patch. I messed up this patchset and ended up with some duplicated patches :( Please ignore this patchset and take a look at the other series I just sent out with "RESEND" suject prefix. Thanks WANG Chao
