[PATCH v2] kexec: Increase the upper limit for RAM segments

[Xunlei Pang]

On 2016/11/12 at 06:21, Sameer Goel wrote:
> On a newer UEFI based Qualcomm target the number of system ram regions
> retrieved from /proc/iomem are ~40. So increasing the current hardcoded
> values to 64 from 16.

I am a little confused, memory regions from /proc/iomem should be MAX_MEMORY_RANGES used
as the elfcorehdr, while KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX stands for the kexec segments passed to the kexec
syscall, like kernel image, initrd image, purgatory, etc.

Do you mean KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX or MAX_MEMORY_RANGES?

Regards,
Xunlei

>
> Signed-off-by: Sameer Goel <sgoel at codeaurora.org>
> ---
>  kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.h | 2 +-
>  kexec/kexec-syscall.h          | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.h b/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.h
> index bac62f8..bd4c20e 100644
> --- a/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.h
> +++ b/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.h
> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
>  #include "image-header.h"
>  #include "kexec.h"
>  
> -#define KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX 16
> +#define KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX 64
>  
>  #define BOOT_BLOCK_VERSION 17
>  #define BOOT_BLOCK_LAST_COMP_VERSION 16
> diff --git a/kexec/kexec-syscall.h b/kexec/kexec-syscall.h
> index c0d0bea..f84c937 100644
> --- a/kexec/kexec-syscall.h
> +++ b/kexec/kexec-syscall.h
> @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static inline long kexec_file_load(int kernel_fd, int initrd_fd,
>  #define KEXEC_ARCH_MIPS    ( 8 << 16)
>  #define KEXEC_ARCH_CRIS    (76 << 16)
>  
> -#define KEXEC_MAX_SEGMENTS 16
> +#define KEXEC_MAX_SEGMENTS 64
>  
>  #ifdef __i386__
>  #define KEXEC_ARCH_NATIVE	KEXEC_ARCH_386