Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:59:37 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86 e820: only void usable memory areas in memmap=exactmap case | From | Yinghai Lu <> |
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> wrote: >> We may need to keep exactmap intact. > Why? > Kexec/kdump should have been the only user? > If older/current kexec calls still add ACPI maps via memmap=X#Y, > they should already exist in the original e820 map and fall off or > get glued to one region if (wrongly) overlapping via sanitize_map.
No, kexec/kdump is not the only user for memmap=exactmap.
Thanks
Yinghai
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