[PATCH] x86: Limit E820 map when a user-defined memory map is specified

Ingo Molnar mingo at elte.hu
Thu Jun 26 09:22:57 EDT 2008


* Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de> wrote:
> > This patch brings back limiting of the E820 map when a user-defined
> > E820 map is specified. While the behaviour of i386 (32 bit) was to limit
> > the E820 map (and /proc/iomem), the behaviour of x86-64 (64 bit) was not to
> > limit.
> >
> > That patch limits the E820 map again for both x86 architectures.
> >
> > Code was tested for compilation and booting on a 32 bit and 64 bit system.
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de>
> 
> Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel at gmail.com>

applied to tip/x86/unify-setup - thanks.

	Ingo



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