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Commit d3758f87 authored by Jay Lan's avatar Jay Lan Committed by Tony Luck
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[IA64] kexec fails on systems with blocks of uncached memory



Currently a memory segment in memory map with attribute of EFI_MEMORY_UC
is denoted as "System RAM" in /proc/iomem, while memory of attribute
(EFI_MEMORY_WB|EFI_MEMORY_UC) is also labeled the same.

The kexec utility then includes uncached memory as part of vmcore. The
kdump kernel MCA'ed when it tries to save the vmcore to a disk. A normal
"cached" access may cause MCAs.

This patch would label memory with attribute of EFI_MEMORY_UC only as
"Uncached RAM" so that kexec would know not to include it in the vmcore.
I will submit a separate kexec-tools patch to the kexec list.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
parent 06f95ea8
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