[RFC PATCH v2 0/7] Introduce persistent memory pool

[Shutemov, Kirill]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 07:46:36PM -0700, Stanislav Kinsburskii wrote:
> I'd answer yes, "System MAP" must be persisted across kexec.
> Could you elaborate on why there should be a mechanism to tell the
> kernel anything special about the existent "System map" in this context?
> Say, one can reserve a CMA region (or a crash kernel region, etc), store
> there some data, and then pass it across kexec. Reserved CMA region will
> still be a part of the "System MAP", won't it?

Em. When crash kernel starts all System RAM of the the first kernel
becomes E820_TYPE_RESERVED and only memory pre-allocated for crash
scenario becomes E820_TYPE_RAM. See crash_setup_memmap_entries().

Can't you go the same path? Report all deposited memory as
E820_TYPE_RESERVED.

Or do you have too many deposited memory ranges, so we would run out of
e820 entries?

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