Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH 1/3] memblock: update initialization of reserved pages | From | David Hildenbrand <> | Date | Thu, 15 Apr 2021 11:30:12 +0200 |
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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(). > >> 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 ;)
-- Thanks,
David / dhildenb
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