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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: [PATCH v1 2/4] memblock: update initialization of reserved pages
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 15:56:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed8f10a0-9b68-1d12-0305-90fd378af6b9@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210420090925.7457-3-rppt@kernel.org>

On 20.04.21 11:09, 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().

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



  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-20 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-20  9:09 [PATCH v1 0/4] arm64: drop pfn_valid_within() and simplify pfn_valid() Mike Rapoport
2021-04-20  9:09 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] include/linux/mmzone.h: add documentation for pfn_valid() Mike Rapoport
2021-04-20  9:22   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-20 12:57     ` Mike Rapoport
2021-04-20 12:58       ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-20  9:09 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] memblock: update initialization of reserved pages Mike Rapoport
2021-04-20 13:56   ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2021-04-20 15:03     ` Mike Rapoport
2021-04-20 15:18       ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-20 15:25         ` Mike Rapoport
2021-04-20  9:09 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] arm64: decouple check whether pfn is in linear map from pfn_valid() Mike Rapoport
2021-04-20 15:57   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-21  5:32     ` Mike Rapoport
2021-04-20  9:09 ` [PATCH v1 4/4] arm64: drop pfn_valid_within() and simplify pfn_valid() Mike Rapoport
2021-04-20 16:00   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-21  5:52     ` Mike Rapoport

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