Hi, All arch/x86/kernel/pci-calgary.c is the only user of saved_max_pfn today: int __init detect_calgary(void) { [..] specified_table_size = determine_tce_table_size((is_kdump_kernel() ? saved_max_pfn : max_pfn) * PAGE_SIZE); [..] } saved_max_pfn is the real mem size and is calculated by 1st kernel E820 memmap which is passed in by 2nd kernel's boot_params (done by kexec): saved_max_pfn = e820_end_of_ram_pfn(); After saved_max_pfn has been set, memmap=exactmap will reset the E820 provided by boot_params and use the user defined E820 instead. Now we want to get rid of memmap=exactmap and directly pass the E820 memmap by boot_params for some reason (eg. exactmap may exceed the cmdline size and also isn't compatible with kaslr). However saved_max_pfn becomes the obstacle for obsoleting exactmap. Because it needs two conditions: first kernel's E820 map and memmap=exactmap cmdline. So I'm wondering if it's possible to get rid of saved_max_pfn totally in calgary code. Or we can get saved_max_pfn using a different way, for example calculated in 1st kernel and passed in to 2nd kernel by cmdline. Thanks WANG Chao