Re: [PATCH 0/2 v4] add reserved e820 ranges to the kdump kernel e820 table

2018-10-24 Thread Dave Young
On 10/22/18 at 03:47pm, Lianbo Jiang wrote: > E820 reserved ranges is useful in kdump kernel, it has been added in > kexec-tools code. > > One reason is PCI mmconf (extended mode) requires reserved region otherwise > it falls back to legacy mode. > > Furthermore, when AMD SME kdump support, it

[PATCH 0/2 v4] add reserved e820 ranges to the kdump kernel e820 table

2018-10-22 Thread Lianbo Jiang
E820 reserved ranges is useful in kdump kernel, it has been added in kexec-tools code. One reason is PCI mmconf (extended mode) requires reserved region otherwise it falls back to legacy mode. Furthermore, when AMD SME kdump support, it needs to map dmi table area as decrypted. For normal boot,