On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 12:35 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > This fixes two issues: > - wrong memory type used for allocation intended to persist post-boot [...] > @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static efi_status_t setup_efi_pci(struct > size = pci->romsize + sizeof(*rom); > > status = efi_call_phys3(sys_table->boottime->allocate_pool, > - EFI_LOADER_DATA, size, &rom); > + EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA, size, &rom); > > if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) > continue; I'm curious why you made this change. No one should be stealing that region of memory because that's all handled in parse_e820_ext() - it's marked as off limits wrt memory for the kernel's use. And the firmware certainly shouldn't start touching it. Have you witnessed some case where things explode without your change? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
