[PATCH v7 1/3] efi/x86: Fix EFI memory map corruption with kexec

Borislav Petkov bp at alien8.de
Mon Jun 3 09:57:47 PDT 2024


On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 11:48:03AM -0500, Kalra, Ashish wrote:
> Yes, something similar as above, as efi_mem_reserve() is used to reserve
> boot service memory and is not necessary for kexec boot.
> 
> So, Dave Young (dyoung at redhat.com) had suggested that we skip
> efi_arch_mem_reserve() for kexec by checking the set EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME
> attribute as below:a

efi_arch_mem_reserve() or efi_mem_reserve() altogether?

Btw, that below got really gibberished by your mail client. Snipped.

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