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>
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