Re: [PATCH 0/3] Find mirrored memory, use for boot time allocations

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed May 06 2015 - 19:29:23 EST


On Mon, 4 May 2015 13:52:23 -0700 Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> UEFI published the spec that descibes the attribute bit we need to
> find out which memory ranges are mirrored. So time to post the real
> version of this series.

Can we please have an explanation for why we're doing this? Reading
further I see that the intent is to put kernel data structures into
mirrored memory. Why is this a good thing?


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