From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@suse.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Marek Marczykowski-Górecki" <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/setup: call early_reserve_memory() earlier
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 12:31:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <780610f6-de4f-625d-e242-97063cea7cc5@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YUMclVZ5uxKV/bRZ@zn.tnic>
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On 16.09.21 12:29, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 12:09:27PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>> I think the first sentence about reserving memory before memblock
>> allocations are possible is important and I think we should keep it.
>
> I expanded that comment this way:
>
> /*
> * Do some memory reservations *before* memory is added to memblock, so
> * memblock allocations won't overwrite it.
> *
> * After this point, everything still needed from the boot loader or
> * firmware or kernel text should be early reserved or marked not RAM in
> * e820. All other memory is free game.
> *
> * This call needs to happen before e820__memory_setup() which calls the
> * xen_memory_setup() on Xen dom0 which relies on the fact that those
> * early reservations have happened already.
> */
>
Yes, this seems to be an accurate description.
Juergen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-16 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-14 9:41 Juergen Gross
2021-09-14 10:03 ` Jan Beulich
2021-09-14 11:06 ` Juergen Gross
2021-09-15 11:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-16 9:09 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-09-16 10:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-16 10:31 ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2021-09-14 10:49 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2021-09-16 10:50 ` [tip: x86/urgent] x86/setup: Call " tip-bot2 for Juergen Gross
2021-09-19 16:55 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-19 17:04 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-09-20 0:56 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-20 9:26 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-09-20 9:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-20 11:25 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-20 11:33 ` Juergen Gross
2021-09-19 17:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-20 6:00 ` Juergen Gross
2021-09-20 9:46 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-09-20 22:48 ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-09-21 3:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-21 3:59 ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-09-21 7:36 ` Borislav Petkov
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