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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c, branch linux-4.4.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ia64: remove paravirt code</title>
<updated>2015-06-10T21:26:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis R. Rodriguez</name>
<email>mcgrof@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-02T18:42:02+00:00</published>
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All the ia64 pvops code is now dead code since both
xen and kvm support have been ripped out [0] [1]. Just
that no one had troubled to rip this stuff out. The only
useful remaining pieces were the old pvops docs but that
was recently also generalized and moved out from ia64 [2].

This has been run time tested on an ia64 Madison system.

[0] 003f7de625890 "KVM: ia64: remove" since v3.19-rc1
[1] d52eefb47d4eb "ia64/xen: Remove Xen support for ia64" since v3.14-rc1
[2] "virtual: Documentation: simplify and generalize paravirt_ops.txt"

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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All the ia64 pvops code is now dead code since both
xen and kvm support have been ripped out [0] [1]. Just
that no one had troubled to rip this stuff out. The only
useful remaining pieces were the old pvops docs but that
was recently also generalized and moved out from ia64 [2].

This has been run time tested on an ia64 Madison system.

[0] 003f7de625890 "KVM: ia64: remove" since v3.19-rc1
[1] d52eefb47d4eb "ia64/xen: Remove Xen support for ia64" since v3.14-rc1
[2] "virtual: Documentation: simplify and generalize paravirt_ops.txt"

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ia64: fix up obsolete cpu function usage.</title>
<updated>2015-03-05T04:55:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-05T00:19:16+00:00</published>
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Thanks to spatch, then a sweep for for_each_cpu_mask =&gt; for_each_cpu.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
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Thanks to spatch, then a sweep for for_each_cpu_mask =&gt; for_each_cpu.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>DMI: Parse memory device (type 17) in SMBIOS</title>
<updated>2013-10-23T17:10:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen, Gong</name>
<email>gong.chen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-18T21:29:25+00:00</published>
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This patch adds a new interface to decode memory device (type 17)
to help error reporting on DIMMs.

Original-author: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chen, Gong &lt;gong.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;m.chehab@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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This patch adds a new interface to decode memory device (type 17)
to help error reporting on DIMMs.

Original-author: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chen, Gong &lt;gong.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;m.chehab@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[IA64] Delete __cpuinit usage from all ia64 users</title>
<updated>2013-06-24T22:44:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-17T19:51:20+00:00</published>
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The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

This removes all the ia64 uses of the __cpuinit macros.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

This removes all the ia64 uses of the __cpuinit macros.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dump_stack: implement arch-specific hardware description in task dumps</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T00:04:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-30T22:27:15+00:00</published>
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x86 and ia64 can acquire extra hardware identification information
from DMI and print it along with task dumps; however, the usage isn't
consistent.

* x86 show_regs() collects vendor, product and board strings and print
  them out with PID, comm and utsname.  Some of the information is
  printed again later in the same dump.

* warn_slowpath_common() explicitly accesses the DMI board and prints
  it out with "Hardware name:" label.  This applies to both x86 and
  ia64 but is irrelevant on all other archs.

* ia64 doesn't show DMI information on other non-WARN dumps.

This patch introduces arch-specific hardware description used by
dump_stack().  It can be set by calling dump_stack_set_arch_desc()
during boot and, if exists, printed out in a separate line with
"Hardware name:" label.

dmi_set_dump_stack_arch_desc() is added which sets arch-specific
description from DMI data.  It uses dmi_ids_string[] which is set from
dmi_present() used for DMI debug message.  It is superset of the
information x86 show_regs() is using.  The function is called from x86
and ia64 boot code right after dmi_scan_machine().

This makes the explicit DMI handling in warn_slowpath_common()
unnecessary.  Removed.

show_regs() isn't yet converted to use generic debug information
printing and this patch doesn't remove the duplicate DMI handling in
x86 show_regs().  The next patch will unify show_regs() handling and
remove the duplication.

An example WARN dump follows.

 WARNING: at kernel/workqueue.c:4841 init_workqueues+0x35/0x505()
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #3
 Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011  10/26/2007
  0000000000000009 ffff88007c861e08 ffffffff81c614dc ffff88007c861e48
  ffffffff8108f500 ffffffff82228240 0000000000000040 ffffffff8234a08e
  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861e58
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff81c614dc&gt;] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
  [&lt;ffffffff8108f500&gt;] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0
  [&lt;ffffffff8108f54a&gt;] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
  [&lt;ffffffff8234a0c3&gt;] init_workqueues+0x35/0x505
  ...

v2: Use the same string as the debug message from dmi_present() which
    also contains BIOS information.  Move hardware name into its own
    line as warn_slowpath_common() did.  This change was suggested by
    Bjorn Helgaas.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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x86 and ia64 can acquire extra hardware identification information
from DMI and print it along with task dumps; however, the usage isn't
consistent.

* x86 show_regs() collects vendor, product and board strings and print
  them out with PID, comm and utsname.  Some of the information is
  printed again later in the same dump.

* warn_slowpath_common() explicitly accesses the DMI board and prints
  it out with "Hardware name:" label.  This applies to both x86 and
  ia64 but is irrelevant on all other archs.

* ia64 doesn't show DMI information on other non-WARN dumps.

This patch introduces arch-specific hardware description used by
dump_stack().  It can be set by calling dump_stack_set_arch_desc()
during boot and, if exists, printed out in a separate line with
"Hardware name:" label.

dmi_set_dump_stack_arch_desc() is added which sets arch-specific
description from DMI data.  It uses dmi_ids_string[] which is set from
dmi_present() used for DMI debug message.  It is superset of the
information x86 show_regs() is using.  The function is called from x86
and ia64 boot code right after dmi_scan_machine().

This makes the explicit DMI handling in warn_slowpath_common()
unnecessary.  Removed.

show_regs() isn't yet converted to use generic debug information
printing and this patch doesn't remove the duplicate DMI handling in
x86 show_regs().  The next patch will unify show_regs() handling and
remove the duplication.

An example WARN dump follows.

 WARNING: at kernel/workqueue.c:4841 init_workqueues+0x35/0x505()
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #3
 Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011  10/26/2007
  0000000000000009 ffff88007c861e08 ffffffff81c614dc ffff88007c861e48
  ffffffff8108f500 ffffffff82228240 0000000000000040 ffffffff8234a08e
  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861e58
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff81c614dc&gt;] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
  [&lt;ffffffff8108f500&gt;] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0
  [&lt;ffffffff8108f54a&gt;] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
  [&lt;ffffffff8234a0c3&gt;] init_workqueues+0x35/0x505
  ...

v2: Use the same string as the debug message from dmi_present() which
    also contains BIOS information.  Move hardware name into its own
    line as warn_slowpath_common() did.  This change was suggested by
    Bjorn Helgaas.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ia64 idle: delete pm_idle</title>
<updated>2013-02-18T04:37:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-10T03:28:34+00:00</published>
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pm_idle() on ia64 was a synonym for default_idle().
So simply invoke default_idle() directly.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
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pm_idle() on ia64 was a synonym for default_idle().
So simply invoke default_idle() directly.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)</title>
<updated>2012-03-29T00:19:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-29T00:19:27+00:00</published>
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Merge third batch of patches from Andrew Morton:
 - Some MM stragglers
 - core SMP library cleanups (on_each_cpu_mask)
 - Some IPI optimisations
 - kexec
 - kdump
 - IPMI
 - the radix-tree iterator work
 - various other misc bits.

 "That'll do for -rc1.  I still have ~10 patches for 3.4, will send
  those along when they've baked a little more."

* emailed from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (35 commits)
  backlight: fix typo in tosa_lcd.c
  crc32: add help text for the algorithm select option
  mm: move hugepage test examples to tools/testing/selftests/vm
  mm: move slabinfo.c to tools/vm
  mm: move page-types.c from Documentation to tools/vm
  selftests/Makefile: make `run_tests' depend on `all'
  selftests: launch individual selftests from the main Makefile
  radix-tree: use iterators in find_get_pages* functions
  radix-tree: rewrite gang lookup using iterator
  radix-tree: introduce bit-optimized iterator
  fs/proc/namespaces.c: prevent crash when ns_entries[] is empty
  nbd: rename the nbd_device variable from lo to nbd
  pidns: add reboot_pid_ns() to handle the reboot syscall
  sysctl: use bitmap library functions
  ipmi: use locks on watchdog timeout set on reboot
  ipmi: simplify locking
  ipmi: fix message handling during panics
  ipmi: use a tasklet for handling received messages
  ipmi: increase KCS timeouts
  ipmi: decrease the IPMI message transaction time in interrupt mode
  ...
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Merge third batch of patches from Andrew Morton:
 - Some MM stragglers
 - core SMP library cleanups (on_each_cpu_mask)
 - Some IPI optimisations
 - kexec
 - kdump
 - IPMI
 - the radix-tree iterator work
 - various other misc bits.

 "That'll do for -rc1.  I still have ~10 patches for 3.4, will send
  those along when they've baked a little more."

* emailed from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (35 commits)
  backlight: fix typo in tosa_lcd.c
  crc32: add help text for the algorithm select option
  mm: move hugepage test examples to tools/testing/selftests/vm
  mm: move slabinfo.c to tools/vm
  mm: move page-types.c from Documentation to tools/vm
  selftests/Makefile: make `run_tests' depend on `all'
  selftests: launch individual selftests from the main Makefile
  radix-tree: use iterators in find_get_pages* functions
  radix-tree: rewrite gang lookup using iterator
  radix-tree: introduce bit-optimized iterator
  fs/proc/namespaces.c: prevent crash when ns_entries[] is empty
  nbd: rename the nbd_device variable from lo to nbd
  pidns: add reboot_pid_ns() to handle the reboot syscall
  sysctl: use bitmap library functions
  ipmi: use locks on watchdog timeout set on reboot
  ipmi: simplify locking
  ipmi: fix message handling during panics
  ipmi: use a tasklet for handling received messages
  ipmi: increase KCS timeouts
  ipmi: decrease the IPMI message transaction time in interrupt mode
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch/ia64: remove references to cpu_*_map</title>
<updated>2012-03-29T00:14:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srivatsa S. Bhat</name>
<email>srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T21:42:46+00:00</published>
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This was marked as obsolete for quite a while now..  Now it is time to
remove it altogether.  And while doing this, get rid of first_cpu() as
well.  Also, remove the redundant setting of cpu_online_mask in
smp_prepare_cpus() because the generic code would have already set cpu 0
in cpu_online_mask.

Reported-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was marked as obsolete for quite a while now..  Now it is time to
remove it altogether.  And while doing this, get rid of first_cpu() as
well.  Also, remove the redundant setting of cpu_online_mask in
smp_prepare_cpus() because the generic code would have already set cpu 0
in cpu_online_mask.

Reported-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Disintegrate asm/system.h for IA64</title>
<updated>2012-03-28T17:30:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T17:30:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c140d87995b68b428f70635c2e4071e4e8b3256e'/>
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Disintegrate asm/system.h for IA64.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
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Disintegrate asm/system.h for IA64.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[IA64] Merge overlapping reserved regions at boot</title>
<updated>2011-12-09T23:06:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Tesarik</name>
<email>ptesarik@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-29T14:01:51+00:00</published>
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While working on the upcoming SLES11 SP2, I ran into an issue with booting the
panic kernel on a kernel crash. In the first iteration I found out that the
initial register backing store gets overwritten with zeroes, causing a kernel
crash shortly afterwards.

Further investigation revealed that rsvd_region[] contains overlapping
entries: find_memmap_space() returns a pointer which lies between KERNEL_START
and _end. This is correct with the EFI memmap as patched by the kexec
purgatory code. That code removes vmlinux LOAD segments from the usable map,
but there is a pretty large hole between the gate section and the per-cpu
section.

This happens because reserve_memory() blindly marks [KERNEL_START, __end]
as reserved, even though there is a free block in the middle in the kexec
case because it noticed a large gap between sections and modified the
efi_memory_map to account for this.

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik &lt;ptesarik@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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While working on the upcoming SLES11 SP2, I ran into an issue with booting the
panic kernel on a kernel crash. In the first iteration I found out that the
initial register backing store gets overwritten with zeroes, causing a kernel
crash shortly afterwards.

Further investigation revealed that rsvd_region[] contains overlapping
entries: find_memmap_space() returns a pointer which lies between KERNEL_START
and _end. This is correct with the EFI memmap as patched by the kexec
purgatory code. That code removes vmlinux LOAD segments from the usable map,
but there is a pretty large hole between the gate section and the per-cpu
section.

This happens because reserve_memory() blindly marks [KERNEL_START, __end]
as reserved, even though there is a free block in the middle in the kexec
case because it noticed a large gap between sections and modified the
efi_memory_map to account for this.

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik &lt;ptesarik@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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