From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Find mirrored memory, use for boot time allocations
Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 16:29:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150506162916.d19f9d82cecd0d96897d7835@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1430772743.git.tony.luck@intel.com>
On Mon, 4 May 2015 13:52:23 -0700 Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
> UEFI published the spec that descibes the attribute bit we need to
> find out which memory ranges are mirrored. So time to post the real
> version of this series.
Can we please have an explanation for why we're doing this? Reading
further I see that the intent is to put kernel data structures into
mirrored memory. Why is this a good thing?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-06 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-04 20:52 Tony Luck
2015-02-03 22:38 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm/memblock: Allocate boot time data structures from mirrored memory Tony Luck
2015-05-06 23:30 ` Andrew Morton
2015-05-07 17:41 ` Tony Luck
2015-05-07 21:24 ` Tony Luck
2015-05-07 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2015-02-03 22:40 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86, mirror: x86 enabling - find mirrored memory ranges Tony Luck
2015-05-06 23:30 ` Andrew Morton
2015-04-29 18:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm/memblock: Add extra "flag" to memblock to allow selection of memory based on attribute Tony Luck
2015-05-06 23:29 ` Andrew Morton
2015-05-06 23:29 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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