[PATCH 2/2] x86 e820: Introduce memmap=resetusablemap for kdump usage

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jan 28 21:11:59 EST 2013


On 01/28/2013 06:10 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> kexec-tools will change that to E820_KDUMP_RESERVED (or other good name).
>
> We only need to update kernel to get old max_pfn by
> checking E820_KDUMP_RESERVED.
>

OK, I have asked this before, but I still have not gotten any acceptable 
answer:

Why do we still have max_*_pfn at all?  Shouldn't it all be based on 
memblocks by now?

	-hpa

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