Re: [PATCH] x86: make sure wakeup code is below 1M -v2

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Nov 12 2009 - 14:32:11 EST


On Thursday 12 November 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Tue 2009-11-10 18:27:23, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >
> > try to find_e820_area/reserve_early, and call acpi_reserve_memory early
> >
> > to get area is below 1M
>
> Does it fix anything? I can't tell from the changelog...

Yes, it does. If the area is above 1M, we can't run real mode code from it.

This matters for NUMA machines supporting S3 (yes, there are a few models
out there).

Thanks,
Rafael
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