James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> writes: > Memory added to the system by hotplug has a 'System RAM' resource created > for it. This is exposed to user-space via /proc/iomem. > > This poses problems for kexec on arm64. If kexec decides to place the > kernel in one of these newly onlined regions, the new kernel will find > itself booting from a region not described as memory in the firmware > tables. > > Arm64 doesn't have a structure like the e820 memory map that can be > re-written when memory is brought online. Instead arm64 uses the UEFI > memory map, or the memory node from the DT, sometimes both. We never > rewrite these. > > Allow an architecture to specify a different name for these hotplug > regions. Gah. No. Please find a way to pass the current memory map to the loaded kexec'd kernel. Starting a kernel with no way for it to know what the current memory map is just plain scary. Eric
