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Re: [Xen-devel] Duplicated memory node in the Device-Tree (WAS [XEN] Re: Duplicated memory nodes cause the BUG())



Hello Andrew,


On 25.07.17 19:23, Andrew Cooper wrote:
As a general rule, Xen needs to be able to tolerate and cope with any
quantity of crap described by the firmware.  On the x86 side, we have
large quantities of workarounds for buggy ACPI/MP/SMBIOS tables.
That approach somehow covered with early mentioned options:

On 25.07.17 15:24, Andrii Anisov wrote:
* ignore next duplicating (overlapping) memory node in favor of one already in a memory banks list * merge duplicating (overlapping), even neighboring, memory banks

On 25.07.17 19:23, Andrew Cooper wrote:
It might be the case that the best Xen can do is give up, but it should
do so with a clear error message identifying what the firmware has done
which is sufficiently crazy to prevent further booting.
We have one more option to choose for the case:

* BUG() with clear notification at the moment we are trying to add overlapping memory bank

So what to choose?

ps:
Hitting a BUG()
Actually silently dying without earlyprintk enabled in this case. It happens pretty early.

--

*Andrii Anisov*



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