On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:07:44PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 02:01:24PM -0700, Jerry Hoemann wrote: > > > > Some platform have firmware that violates the UEFI spec and access boot > > service code or data segments after the system has called ExitBootServices(). > > The call to efi_reserve_boot_services in setup_arch is a workaround to > > avoid using boot service memory until after the kernel has done > > SetVirtualAddressMap. However, this reservation fragments memory > > which can cause large allocations early in boot (e.g. crash kernel) > > to fail. > > This is a problem we have to solve, but I don't think this is the right > way to solve it. Why do we not just reattempt to perform the allocation > immediately after we've freed the boot services regions? Hi Matthew, I tried this back on 3.11 kernel and reserve_crashkernel after free of boot services failed. I will admit to not digging in too deeply as to why it failed. My earlier email: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/18/457 thanks > > -- > Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Hoemann Software Engineer Hewlett-Packard 3404 E Harmony Rd. MS 57 phone: (970) 898-1022 Ft. Collins, CO 80528 FAX: (970) 898-XXXX email: jerry.hoemann@xxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
