[PATCH 4/8] x86, acpi, brk: Extend BRK 256KB to store acpi override tables.

2013-08-21 Thread Tang Chen
When finding acpi override tables in initrd, we need to allocate memory to store these tables. But at such an early time, we don't have any memory allocator. The basic idea is to use BRK. This patch reserves 256KB in BRK, and allocate it to store override tables, instead of memblock. This idea

[PATCH 4/8] x86, acpi, brk: Extend BRK 256KB to store acpi override tables.

2013-08-21 Thread Tang Chen
When finding acpi override tables in initrd, we need to allocate memory to store these tables. But at such an early time, we don't have any memory allocator. The basic idea is to use BRK. This patch reserves 256KB in BRK, and allocate it to store override tables, instead of memblock. This idea