[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] ata: Many CPUs cause seabios not to find boot disk

Han, Huaitong huaitong.han at intel.com
Mon Aug 3 17:49:14 CEST 2015


On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 10:32 -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> If I understand your patch, it seems to be trying to force large
> mptable allocations to fail while still allowing other f-seg
> allocations.  I think a simpler approach would be to just limit the
> mptable allocation and leave the malloc implementation unchanged.  See
> patch below.

Yes, it's a better way to solve problem.

>      u16 mpclength = ((struct mptable_config_s *)p->physaddr)->length;
> +    if (length + mpclength > BUILD_MAX_MPTABLE_FSEG)

it's better that warning dprintf is added before return.

> +        return;




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