Re: APEI: Can not request iomem region for GARs

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Fri Aug 26 2011 - 09:44:09 EST


On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Pavel,
>
> Sorry,  there is a minor issue in the patch.  Do you have time to try
> the updated version attached.

I think Yinghai's patch is a better approach (though it needs a changelog).

The ACPI NVS space should not be marked as "busy" by the e820 code in
the iomem_resource tree.

It's way too complicated to mess around with registering NVS space and
trying to deal with it specially in APEI.

Bjorn
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