[PATCH 2/2] ARM: kexec: Check segment memory addresses

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Sep 7 04:49:38 EDT 2012


On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:41:00AM +0100, Matthew Leach wrote:
> Ensure that the memory regions that are set within the segments
> correspond to physical contiguous memory regions.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>
> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Leach <matthew.leach at arm.com>

What about platforms which pull out bits of physical RAM from memblock
via arm_memblock_steal() ?  Doesn't this mean such platforms will reduce
their available memory on each subsequent kexec?



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