[RFC/RFT PATCH 1/3] memblock: update initialization of reserved pages

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Thu Apr 15 10:30:12 BST 2021


> Not sure we really need a new pagetype here, PG_Reserved seems to be quite
> enough to say "don't touch this".  I generally agree that we could make
> PG_Reserved a PageType and then have several sub-types for reserved memory.
> This definitely will add clarity but I'm not sure that this justifies
> amount of churn and effort required to audit uses of PageResrved().
>   
>> Then, we could mostly avoid having to query memblock at runtime to figure
>> out that this is special memory. This would obviously be an extension to
>> this series. Just a thought.
> 
> Stop pushing memblock out of kernel! ;-)

Can't stop. Won't stop. :D

It's lovely for booting up a kernel until we have other data-structures 
in place ;)


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Thanks,

David / dhildenb




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