Re: [PATCH] efi: Retain boot service code until after switching tovirtual mode

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 01:26:27PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> how many entries are listed in memmap?

So far I've been seeing about 20 boot services entries at most.

> Did you test this system that have lots of those entries ? like > 128?

Do any exist?

> because efi_init() is called before memblock_x86_fill(), that means
> memblock array for reserved can not be doubled yet. --- no usable
> entries in memblock array for ram.

Mm. I guess this can be shifted later.

> > +        * get rid of it all at this point
> > +        */
> > +       free_efi_boot_services();
> > +
> 
> No, at that point memblock is not used any more.  after mm_init()/mem_init()
> 
> need to use free_bootmem_late() in free_efi_boot_services

Ah, ok.

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