Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 01:46:45PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On 06/08/2011 01:42 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 01:36:57PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > 
> >> or just let bootloader to mark those boot services just like run-time services in e820 table or setupdata?
> > 
> > That was my original approach, but if there's boot services code at the 
> > top of RAM it means that max_pfn is wrong and it's difficult to recover 
> > the memory.
> 
> not all boot services ram.  just those are called by run-time services code.

We have no way of telling which regions those are until they've been 
called.

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