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    x86 boot: allow overlapping early reserve memory ranges · c4ba1320
    Paul Jackson authored
    Add support for overlapping early memory reservations.
    
    In general, they still can't overlap, and will panic
    with "Overlapping early reservations" if they do overlap.
    
    But if a memory range is reserved with the new call:
        reserve_early_overlap_ok()
    rather than with the usual call:
        reserve_early()
    then subsequent early reservations are allowed to overlap.
    
    This new reserve_early_overlap_ok() call is only used in one
    place so far, which is the "BIOS reserved" reservation for the
    the EBDA region, which out of Paranoia reserves more than what
    the BIOS might have specified, and which thus might overlap with
    another legitimate early memory reservation (such as, perhaps,
    the EFI memmap.)
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
    Cc: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
    Cc: "Jack Steiner" <steiner@sgi.com>
    Cc: "Mike Travis" <travis@sgi.com>
    Cc: "Huang
    Cc: Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
    Cc: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
    Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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