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authorMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>2013-07-16 22:16:11 +0100
committerMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>2013-07-17 18:29:16 +0100
commitba638fd9bf72b0c786c88909014136cfa641a147 (patch)
tree0d4b018660a4010fc13a3f320e8b701ea78621c6
parenta1331f8d04dbeb06d6f6c4c1fc736a50b0c0299a (diff)
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movebits: Add SMT_TERMINAL - a last resort region type
Some memory regions are usable, but only as a last resort just before we hand over control to a kernel image. Add the necessary movebits infrastructure to use these regions when all other options have been exhausted. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--com32/include/syslinux/movebits.h1
-rw-r--r--com32/lib/syslinux/movebits.c2
-rw-r--r--com32/lib/syslinux/zonelist.c2
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/com32/include/syslinux/movebits.h b/com32/include/syslinux/movebits.h
index feeab3aa..d5c903a0 100644
--- a/com32/include/syslinux/movebits.h
+++ b/com32/include/syslinux/movebits.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ enum syslinux_memmap_types {
SMT_RESERVED, /* Unusable memory */
SMT_ALLOC, /* Memory allocated by user */
SMT_ZERO, /* Memory that should be zeroed */
+ SMT_TERMINAL, /* Memory to be used as a last resort */
};
struct syslinux_memmap {
diff --git a/com32/lib/syslinux/movebits.c b/com32/lib/syslinux/movebits.c
index 7a05f3c1..8ffdc630 100644
--- a/com32/lib/syslinux/movebits.c
+++ b/com32/lib/syslinux/movebits.c
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ static const struct syslinux_memmap *is_free_zone(const struct syslinux_memmap
if (list->start <= start) {
if (llast >= last) {
/* Chunk has a single, well-defined type */
- if (list->type == SMT_FREE) {
+ if (list->type == SMT_FREE || list->type == SMT_TERMINAL) {
dprintf("F: 0x%08x bytes at 0x%08x\n",
list->next->start, list->start);
return list; /* It's free */
diff --git a/com32/lib/syslinux/zonelist.c b/com32/lib/syslinux/zonelist.c
index 7cd83642..a6de1d85 100644
--- a/com32/lib/syslinux/zonelist.c
+++ b/com32/lib/syslinux/zonelist.c
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ int syslinux_memmap_find(struct syslinux_memmap *mmap,
return 0;
type = syslinux_memmap_type(mmap, *base, size);
- if (type == SMT_FREE)
+ if (type == SMT_FREE || type == SMT_TERMINAL)
return 0;
if (!relocate) {