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

Goel, Sameer sgoel at codeaurora.org
Mon Nov 14 08:23:25 PST 2016


I meant MAX_MEMORY_RANGES. Updated KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX to just match this. 
I can revert KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX.

Thanks,
Sameer

On 11/14/2016 3:51 AM, Xunlei Pang wrote:
> 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
>
>

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