Re: Ugly patches for stolen reservation

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jul 25 2013 - 23:32:34 EST


On 07/25/2013 07:14 PM, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> To clarify: it'll either be marked reserved or not listed at all in e820, which is why I did this early, before any other e820 stuff like the "RAM buffer" are allocated, and before we could use the iomem resource (or maybe we could even early per Linus? I'll check).
>
> Jesse

If it is marked reserved or not listed at all it is much less of an
issue. Reserved is in fact the correct thing; not listed at all really
isn't very problematic in most cases.

-hpa


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