[PATCH] efi/arm64: efistub: don't abort if base of DRAM is occupied

Mark Salter msalter at redhat.com
Tue Jul 15 06:11:00 PDT 2014


On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 11:02 +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> > @@ -273,6 +282,10 @@ static void __init free_boot_services(void)
> >                       continue;
> >               }
> >  
> > +             /* Don't free anything below kernel */
> > +             if (md->phys_addr < PHYS_OFFSET)
> > +                     continue;
> > +
> 
> Is the spin table area really allocated as BOOT_SERVICES_*?
> 

No. It is EFI_RESERVED_TYPE. But if UEFI is allowed below the kernel,
then there could be BS code/data memory which we'd want to ignore.





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