Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:38:31 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [RFC v2 0/2] Early use of boot service memory |
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 04:31:04PM -0700, jerry.hoemann@hp.com wrote:
> I tried this back on 3.11 kernel and reserve_crashkernel after free of > boot services failed. I will admit to not digging in too deeply as to > why it failed.
Hm. If the problem is fragmentation, then yeah, I can imagine this causing problems. In that case we could take a two-pass approach - find a gap that *will* be big enough, reserve everything that isn't currently reserved, and then reserve the rest after ExitBootServices()?
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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