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    SubjectRe: [RFC/RFT PATCH 1/3] memblock: update initialization of reserved pages
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    > 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().
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    >> 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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