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The regions_claim() function limits the allocation of memory regions by excluding certain memory areas from being used by GRUB. This for example includes a gap between 640MB and 768MB as well as an upper limit beyond which no memory may be used when an fadump is present. However, the ieee1275 loader for kernel and initrd currently does not use regions_claim() for memory allocation on PowerVM and KVM on Power and therefore may allocate memory in those areas that it should not use. To make the regions_claim() function more flexible and ultimately usable for the ieee1275 loader, introduce a request structure to pass various parameters to the regions_claim() function that describe the properties of requested memory chunks. In a first step, move the total and flags variables into this structure. Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Pavithra Prakash <pavrampu@in.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Carolyn Scherrer <cpscherr@us.ibm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
This is GRUB 2, the second version of the GRand Unified Bootloader. GRUB 2 is rewritten from scratch to make GNU GRUB cleaner, safer, more robust, more powerful, and more portable. See the file NEWS for a description of recent changes to GRUB 2. See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install the GRUB 2 data and program files. See the file MAINTAINERS for information about the GRUB maintainers, etc. If you found a security vulnerability in the GRUB please check the SECURITY file to get more information how to properly report this kind of bugs to the maintainers. Please visit the official web page of GRUB 2, for more information. The URL is <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html>. More extensive documentation is available in the Info manual, accessible using 'info grub' after building and installing GRUB 2. There are a number of important user-visible differences from the first version of GRUB, now known as GRUB Legacy. For a summary, please see: info grub Introduction 'Changes from GRUB Legacy'