x86, acpi: Introduce x86 arch specific arch_reserve_mem_area() for e820 handling
authorThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:23:53 +0000 (00:23 +0200)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 1 Oct 2012 01:03:13 +0000 (18:03 -0700)
commit8e30524dcc0d0ac1a18a5cee482b9d9cde3cb332
treead5e19dfd62d9ebf0e4ce61b6947e53df1bc4d00
parente6459606b04e6385ccd3c2060fc10f78a92c7700
x86, acpi: Introduce x86 arch specific arch_reserve_mem_area() for e820 handling

This is needed for ACPI table overriding via initrd. Beside reserving
memblocks, X86 also requires to flag the memory area to E820_RESERVED or
E820_ACPI in the e820 mappings to be able to io(re)map it later.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349043837-22659-3-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
include/linux/acpi.h