Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jul 2022 09:45:31 +0530 | Subject | Re: [RFC FIX PATCH] x86/e820: Stop kernel boot when RAM resource reservation fails | From | Bharata B Rao <> |
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On 7/18/2022 8:37 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > I betcha you can generate a lot of "kernel bugs" with weird qemu > options. If it is not a real use case, nobody cares.
I see that we will hit this problem by default when starting a guest with 1T or more memory using QEMU.
> > And even if it were a real use case, panicking the machine is not the > right fix.
I couldn't see a clean exit/recovery option in setup_arch()->e820__reserve_resources() where this happens. Any suggestions?
Regards, Bharata.
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