Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86 e820: Introduce memmap=resetusablemap for kdumpusage

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Jan 28 2013 - 21:12:49 EST


On 01/28/2013 06:10 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:

kexec-tools will change that to E820_KDUMP_RESERVED (or other good name).

We only need to update kernel to get old max_pfn by
checking E820_KDUMP_RESERVED.


OK, I have asked this before, but I still have not gotten any acceptable answer:

Why do we still have max_*_pfn at all? Shouldn't it all be based on memblocks by now?

-hpa

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