Re: [RFC v2 0/2] Early use of boot service memory

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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 04:31:04PM -0700, jerry.hoemann@xxxxxx wrote:

> 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.

Hm. If the problem is fragmentation, then yeah, I can imagine this 
causing problems. In that case we could take a two-pass approach - find 
a gap that *will* be big enough, reserve everything that isn't currently 
reserved, and then reserve the rest after ExitBootServices()?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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