Re: [PATCH 1/2] efi: Fix reservation of unaccepted memory table

From: Dave Hansen

Date: Fri Feb 13 2026 - 11:47:19 EST


On 2/13/26 08:14, Kiryl Shutsemau wrote:
>> The memblock code seems to be able to handle arbitrary alignment just fine.
> Memblock will track it, but, as the comment says, anything smaller than
> page size will not be mapped, but we need the table to be accessible by
> kernel.

That seems really, really fragile.

We should first make sure this is intentional memblock behavior and not
a bug before we go add more hacks on top of it.

Why would you even present a byte-level reservation interface if it is
free to just silently ignore some of the ranges by rounding them off later?