x86 boot: only pick up additional EFI memmap if add_efi_memmap flag

Applies on top of the previous patch:
  x86 boot: add code to add BIOS provided EFI memory entries to kernel

Instead of always adding EFI memory map entries (if present) to the
memory map after initially finding either E820 BIOS memory map entries
and/or kernel command line memmap entries, -instead- only add such
additional EFI memory map entries if the kernel boot option:

    add_efi_memmap

is specified.

Requiring this 'add_efi_memmap' option is backward compatible with
kernels that didn't load such additional EFI memory map entries in
the first place, and it doesn't override a configuration that tries
to replace all E820 or EFI BIOS memory map entries with ones given
entirely on the kernel command line.

Signed-off-by: Paul 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index da13d6d1b2b0..795c487af8e4 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2150,6 +2150,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
         usbhid.mousepoll=
                         [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
 
+        add_efi_memmap  [EFI; x86-32,X86-64] Include EFI memory map in
+                        kernel's map of available physical RAM.
+
         vdso=           [X86-32,SH,x86-64]
                         vdso=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
                         vdso=1: enable VDSO (default)