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powerpc64: Avoid overwriting initrd area
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Authored by breno.leitao_gmail.com on May 29 2018, 9:17 PM.
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Summary

Currently kexec loads an initrd file into the main memory but does not
mark that region as reserved, thus the area is not protected.

If any initrd/md file is loaded from kexec/petitboot, the region might become
corarupted/overwritten since FreeBSD does not know the region is 'reserved'.

This patch simply adds the initrd area as a reserved memory region.

Test Plan
  • Tested on both pseries and POWER9

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