Re: [PATCH 1/4] efi/x86: make efi_memmap_reserve only insert into boot mem areas

[Dave Young]

On 01/12/17 at 04:15pm, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Hello Dave,
> 
> On 12 January 2017 at 09:41, Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > There are memory ranges like below when I testing early efi_mem_reserve:
> >
> > efi: mem62: [Reserved           |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  ] range=[0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff] (0MB)
> > efi: mem63: [Reserved           |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  ] range=[0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff] (0MB)
> > efi: mem64: [Reserved           |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  ] range=[0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff] (0MB)
> > efi: mem65: [Reserved           |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  ] range=[0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff] (0MB)
> > efi: mem66: [Reserved           |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  ] range=[0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff] (0MB)
> > efi: mem67: [Reserved           |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |  ] range=[0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff] (0MB)
> >
> 
> Did you spot Peter's patch to prune invalid memmap entries?
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi.git/commit/?h=next&id=b2a91a35445229
> 
> I would expect this patch to no longer be necessary with that in place, no?

Ard, good suggestion, I did not notice that patch, will try. Actually
I'm not sure about fake_mem handling, if we can filter out the invalid
ranges then it will be natural to drop this one after a test.

Thanks
Dave