[PATCH v2 10/12] ARM: only consider memblocks with NOMAP cleared for linear mapping

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Nov 16 11:00:03 PST 2015


On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 07:32:35PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Take the new memblock attribute MEMBLOCK_NOMAP into account when
> deciding whether a certain region is or should be covered by the
> kernel direct mapping.

It's probably worth looking at this as a replacement to the way
arm_memblock_steal() works, provided NOMAP doesn't result in the
memory being passed to the kernel allocators.  Thoughts?

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