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SubjectRE: [RFC 3/3] x86, mirror: x86 enabling - find mirrored memory ranges and tell memblock
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On 2015/2/4 6:40, Tony Luck wrote:
>> Can't post this part yet because it uses things in an upcoming[*] ACPI, UEFI, or some
>> other four-letter-ending-in-I standard. So just imagine a call someplace early
>> in startup that reads information about mirrored address ranges and does:
>>

> Does the upcoming[*] ACPI will add a new flag in SRAT tables? just like memory hotplug.
>
> #define ACPI_SRAT_MEM_HOT_PLUGGABLE (1<<1) /* 01: Memory region is hot pluggable */
> +#define ACPI_SRAT_MEM_MIRROR (1<<3) /* 03: Memory region is mirrored */

The choice for this was UEFI - new attribute bit in the GetMemoryMap() return value.

UEFI 2.5 has been published with this change and I posted a newer patch 10 days ago:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/8/521

-Tony


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