On Thu, 12 Feb, at 06:39:46PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > I don't see how doing a single allocation could result in a single > free region to be split into more than 1 occupied region + 2 free > regions. > So no, I don't think it is ...
I don't think that's a guarantee we can make, nor is it something we should rely upon. Please explain the user-visible failure that this patch fixes. Does your machine refuse to boot? Why is the 'goto again' loop insufficient in handling this scenario? -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
