Re: [PATCH 10/11] efi: reduce the amount of memblock reservations for persistent allocations

2018-11-30 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 09:38, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > * Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > The current implementation of efi_mem_reserve_persistent() is rather > > naive, in the sense that for each invocation, it creates a separate > > linked list entry to describe the reservation. Since the linked lis

Re: [PATCH 10/11] efi: reduce the amount of memblock reservations for persistent allocations

2018-11-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > The current implementation of efi_mem_reserve_persistent() is rather > naive, in the sense that for each invocation, it creates a separate > linked list entry to describe the reservation. Since the linked list > entries themselves need to persist across subsequent kexe

[PATCH 10/11] efi: reduce the amount of memblock reservations for persistent allocations

2018-11-29 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
The current implementation of efi_mem_reserve_persistent() is rather naive, in the sense that for each invocation, it creates a separate linked list entry to describe the reservation. Since the linked list entries themselves need to persist across subsequent kexec reboots, every reservation created