** Also affects: kexec-tools (Ubuntu Xenial)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Summary changed:
- [SRU] kexec: Increase the upper limit for RAM segments
+ [SRU] kexec: arm64: Increase the upper limit for RAM segments
** Also affects: kexec-tools (Ubuntu Yakkety)
Importance:
[TEST with yakkety kexec-tools]
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo cat /proc/iomem | grep "System RAM"
0020-0020 : System RAM
0082-0307 : System RAM
0308-0308 : System RAM
0309-031f : System RAM
0320-033f : System RAM
0341-0589 : System RAM
058a-058a :
** Description changed:
[Impact]
On a newer UEFI based Qualcomm target the number of system ram regions
retrieved from /proc/iomem are ~40. Currently KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX is set to 16,
which represents the kexec segments passed to kexec_load syscall, like kernel
image, initrd image etc. The
