[PATCH v1 2/4] memblock: update initialization of reserved pages

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Tue Apr 20 14:56:28 BST 2021


On 20.04.21 11:09, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>
> 
> The struct pages representing a reserved memory region are initialized
> using reserve_bootmem_range() function. This function is called for each
> reserved region just before the memory is freed from memblock to the buddy
> page allocator.
> 
> The struct pages for MEMBLOCK_NOMAP regions are kept with the default
> values set by the memory map initialization which makes it necessary to
> have a special treatment for such pages in pfn_valid() and
> pfn_valid_within().

Just a general question while thinking about it:

Would we right now initialize the memmap of these pages already via 
memmap_init_zone()->memmap_init_range()? (IOW, not marking the 
PageReserved?)

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb




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