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Memory regions that are reserved using efi_mem_reserve_persistent() are recorded in a special EFI config table which survives kexec, allowing the incoming kernel to honour them as well. However, such reservations are not visible in /proc/iomem, and so the kexec tools that load the incoming kernel and its initrd into memory may overwrite these reserved regions before the incoming kernel has a chance to reserve them from further use. Address this problem by adding these reservations to /proc/iomem as they are created. Note that reservations that are inherited from a previous kernel are memblock_reserve()'d early on, so they are already visible in /proc/iomem. Tested-by: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.4+ Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191206165542.31469-2-ardb@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.