Some firmware implementations assume that physically contiguous regions
will be contiguous in virtual address space. This assumption is, obviously,
entirely unjustifiable. Said firmware implementations lack the good grace
to handle their failings in a measured and reasonable manner, instead
tending to shit all over address space and oopsing the kernel.
In an ideal universe these firmware implementations would simultaneously
catch fire and cease to be a problem, but since some of them are present
in attractively thin and shiny metal devices vanity wins out and some
poor developer spends an extended period of time surrounded by a
growing array of empty bottles until the underlying reason becomes
apparent. Said developer presents this patch, which simply merges
adjacent regions if they happen to be contiguous and have the same EFI
memory type and caching attributes.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304623186-18261-3-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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