On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 09:40:51AM -0400, Masayoshi Mizuma wrote:
> My actual use case is for EFI boxes, however, I think it's better to useful
> for legacy BIOS as well because memory hot-plug affinity in SRAT and KASLR
> are available on legacy BIOS.
> Actually, we can create such environment in qemu.
Ah, right, qemu. :)
> I have another idea to solve this issue. Adding a SRAT parsing code
> to arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c. It is useful for both EFI and BIOS and
> also we don't need a new kernel parameter...
> Dose the idea make sense?
The more automatic stuff we do and we don't have to involve the user,
the better.
However, lemme look at Chao's current patchset first - we should not go
nuts by putting SRAT parsing everywhere :)
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
