Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Well,

Op 10-06-11 18:47, Matthew Garrett schreef:
> So this is obviously even more of a hack, but before you check whether 
> the memblock has already been reserved could you __check_region it as 
> well? That ought to avoid us touching the kernel. I've got a patch for 
> grub that'll avoid the situation where we load the kernel on top of an 
> existing resource and I'll port that to grub2, but that's still going to 
> be awkward for existing bootloaders.
>
Erm, __check_region calls __requestion_region which does a kzalloc,
if I call __check_region it doesn't boot, probably because of that.

Do you want me to manually run through iomem_resource? Is it even available up at that point?

~Maarten
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