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With efi_fake_memmap() and efi_arch_mem_reserve() the efi table may be
updated and replaced multiple times. When that happens a previous
dynamically allocated efi memory map can be garbage collected. Use the
new EFI_MEMMAP_{SLAB,MEMBLOCK} flags to detect when a dynamically
allocated memory map is being replaced.
Debug statements in efi_memmap_free() reveal:
efi: __efi_memmap_free:37: phys: 0x23ffdd580 size: 2688 flags: 0x2
efi: __efi_memmap_free:37: phys: 0x9db00 size: 2640 flags: 0x2
efi: __efi_memmap_free:37: phys: 0x9e580 size: 2640 flags: 0x2
...a savings of 7968 bytes on a qemu boot with 2 entries specified to
efi_fake_mem=.
[ ardb: added a comment to clarify that efi_memmap_free() does nothing when
called from efi_clean_memmap(), i.e., with data->flags == 0x0 ]
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200113172245.27925-13-ardb@kernel.org
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.