Re: [PATCH] efi: Free existing memory map before installing new memory map

2018-06-27 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On 27 June 2018 at 06:51, Prakhya, Sai Praneeth wrote: >> > + /* Free the memory allocated to the existing memory map */ >> > + efi_memmap_free(efi.memmap.phys_map, efi.memmap.nr_map, >> > + efi.memmap.late); >> > + >> > data.phys_map = addr; >> > data.size = efi.memmap

RE: [PATCH] efi: Free existing memory map before installing new memory map

2018-06-27 Thread Prakhya, Sai Praneeth
> > Also, could you please clarify if there is any specific reason why > > memory allocated using memblock_reserve() shouldn't be freed. I mean, > > not with memblock_free() but I think we could make it _available_ > > using free_bootmem() (or something similar, please correct me if this is not > t