On Fri, 2015-07-24 at 13:50 +0800, Baoquan He wrote: > On 07/24/15 at 01:31pm, Baoquan He wrote: > > On 07/23/15 at 06:26pm, Toshi Kani wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > ACPI 6.0 defines a new type in e820, AddressRangePersistentMemory > > > (7), for > > > NVDIMM. On a system with NVDIMM, kexec displays the following error > > > message and sets it to RANGE_RESERVED as the fallback type. > > > > > > Unknown type (Persistent Memory) while parsing > > > /sys/firmware/memmap/34/type. Please report this as bug. Using > > > RANGE_RESERVED now. > > > > > > This new type is defined in "arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/e820.h" in 4.2 > > > -rc1 > > > as follows. > > > > > > #define E820_PMEM 7 > > Let me check this and try to make a patch, it may need your help to test > it. Great! Yes, I'd be glad to help testing your changes. Thanks, -Toshi