From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH 1/3] memblock: update initialization of reserved pages
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 17:12:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0c48f98c-7454-1458-15a5-cc5a7e1fb7cd@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210407172607.8812-2-rppt@kernel.org>
On 07.04.21 19:26, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@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().
I assume these pages are never given to the buddy, because we don't have
a direct mapping. So to the kernel, it's essentially just like a memory
hole with benefits.
I can spot that we want to export such memory like any special memory
thingy/hole in /proc/iomem -- "reserved", which makes sense.
I would assume that MEMBLOCK_NOMAP is a special type of *reserved*
memory. IOW, that for_each_reserved_mem_range() should already succeed
on these as well -- we should mark anything that is MEMBLOCK_NOMAP
implicitly as reserved. Or are there valid reasons not to do so? What
can anyone do with that memory?
I assume they are pretty much useless for the kernel, right? Like other
reserved memory ranges.
>
> Split out initialization of the reserved pages to a function with a
> meaningful name and treat the MEMBLOCK_NOMAP regions the same way as the
> reserved regions and mark struct pages for the NOMAP regions as
> PageReserved.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> mm/memblock.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
> index afaefa8fc6ab..6b7ea9d86310 100644
> --- a/mm/memblock.c
> +++ b/mm/memblock.c
> @@ -2002,6 +2002,26 @@ static unsigned long __init __free_memory_core(phys_addr_t start,
> return end_pfn - start_pfn;
> }
>
> +static void __init memmap_init_reserved_pages(void)
> +{
> + struct memblock_region *region;
> + phys_addr_t start, end;
> + u64 i;
> +
> + /* initialize struct pages for the reserved regions */
> + for_each_reserved_mem_range(i, &start, &end)
> + reserve_bootmem_region(start, end);
> +
> + /* and also treat struct pages for the NOMAP regions as PageReserved */
> + for_each_mem_region(region) {
> + if (memblock_is_nomap(region)) {
> + start = region->base;
> + end = start + region->size;
> + reserve_bootmem_region(start, end);
> + }
> + }
> +}
> +
> static unsigned long __init free_low_memory_core_early(void)
> {
> unsigned long count = 0;
> @@ -2010,8 +2030,7 @@ static unsigned long __init free_low_memory_core_early(void)
>
> memblock_clear_hotplug(0, -1);
>
> - for_each_reserved_mem_range(i, &start, &end)
> - reserve_bootmem_region(start, end);
> + memmap_init_reserved_pages();
>
> /*
> * We need to use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of NODE_DATA(0)->node_id
>
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-14 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-07 17:26 [RFC/RFT PATCH 0/3] arm64: drop pfn_valid_within() and simplify pfn_valid() Mike Rapoport
2021-04-07 17:26 ` [RFC/RFT PATCH 1/3] memblock: update initialization of reserved pages Mike Rapoport
2021-04-08 5:16 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-04-08 5:48 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-04-14 15:12 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2021-04-14 15:27 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-04-14 15:52 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-14 20:24 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-04-15 9:30 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-16 11:44 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-04-16 11:54 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-14 20:11 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-04-14 20:06 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-04-07 17:26 ` [RFC/RFT PATCH 2/3] arm64: decouple check whether pfn is normal memory from pfn_valid() Mike Rapoport
2021-04-08 5:14 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-04-08 6:00 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-04-14 15:58 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-14 20:29 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-04-15 9:31 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-16 11:40 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-04-07 17:26 ` [RFC/RFT PATCH 3/3] arm64: drop pfn_valid_within() and simplify pfn_valid() Mike Rapoport
2021-04-08 5:12 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-04-08 6:17 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-04-08 5:19 ` [RFC/RFT PATCH 0/3] " Anshuman Khandual
2021-04-08 6:27 ` Mike Rapoport
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