[PATCH] efi: get_memory_map: add sufficient slack for memory descriptors

[Matt Fleming]

On Thu, 12 Feb, at 06:39:46PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> 
> I don't see how doing a single allocation could result in a single
> free region to be split into more than 1 occupied region + 2 free
> regions.
> So no, I don't think it is ...

I don't think that's a guarantee we can make, nor is it something we
should rely upon.

Please explain the user-visible failure that this patch fixes. Does your
machine refuse to boot? Why is the 'goto again' loop insufficient in
handling this scenario?

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center