On 11/21/2013 03:37 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 03:18:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 11/21/2013 03:07 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >>> 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? >>> >> >> Wouldn't the memory map already have gotten scrambled all to hell by then? > > If we couldn't map a 64MB region in low memory earlier then it's likely > to have been because there was a 64MB or greater boot services region. > I thought the problem was that they wanted to map a fairly large chunk for faster kdump and fragmentation was being a problem. -hpa -- 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
