On Thu, 09 Mar, at 12:53:36PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > Hi Omar, > > Thanks for tracking this down. > > I wonder if this is an unintended side effect of the way we repurpose > the EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME attribute in efi_arch_mem_reserve(). AFAIUI, > splitting memory map entries should only be necessary for regions that > are not runtime memory regions to begin with, and so whether their > virtual mapping address makes sense or not should be irrelevant. > > Perhaps this only illustrates my lack of understanding of the x86 way > of doing this, so perhaps Matt can shed some light on this? Sorry for the delay. Yes, Ard is correct. It's not necessary to split/reserve memory regions that already have the EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME attribute.
