Re: [Patch] kexec: increase max of kexec segments and use dynamic allocation

[Eric W. Biederman]

Amerigo Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Currently KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX is only 16 which is too small for machine with
> many memory ranges. Increase this hard limit to 1024 which is reasonably large,
> and change ->segment from a static array to a dynamically allocated memory.

???

This should be about segments in the executable being loaded.  What
executable has one segment for each range of physical memory?

Not that generalizing this is a bad idea but with a comment that
seems entirely wrong I am wondering what the problem really is.

Eric

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