[PATCH] x86: crash kernel reserve with reserve_early

Yinghai Lu yhlu.kernel at gmail.com
Sun Nov 22 20:18:09 EST 2009


On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote:
> Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> [PATCH] x86: crash kernel reserve with reserve_early
>>
>> use find_e820_area/reserve_early instead.
>> will get next good one automatically with alignment
>
> Semantically this is broken, as you are now ignoring a passed in
> base address if one is supplied.  What problem are you trying to fix?

avoid to use bootmem.

also simpify the code.

YH



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