Re: [RFC FIX PATCH] x86/e820: Stop kernel boot when RAM resource reservation fails

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Jul 18 2022 - 11:07:28 EST


On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 08:24:08PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> It may be a weird guest configuration, but it looks like
> a kernel bug exposed by QEMU.

I betcha you can generate a lot of "kernel bugs" with weird qemu
options. If it is not a real use case, nobody cares.

And even if it were a real use case, panicking the machine is not the
right fix.

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Boris.

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