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

Baoquan He bhe at redhat.com
Mon Oct 31 18:37:14 PDT 2016


On 10/31/16 at 01:11pm, Goel, Sameer wrote:
> This change is needed in case when the System Ram listings are retrieved
> from /proc/iomem. On a newer UEFI based Qualcomm system, the number of
> regions listed were close to 34. So, the actual system ram region was not
> covered and the kexec tool failed to load the kernel image.
> 
> So, I have requested an increase in the number of memory regions.
> Thanks,

It would be great to add this to your patch log so that reviewers can
understand it better. Better repost with an updated patch log, copying
these as patch log is good enough.

> Sameer
> 
> On 10/21/2016 11:05 AM, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > Hi Sameer.
> > 
> > On 10/20/2016 04:14 PM, Sameer Goel wrote:
> > > Change the current hardcoded values to 64 from 16.
> > 
> > Please add an explanation of why this change is needed.
> > 
> > -Geoff
> > 
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