Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] page_alloc: Bootmem limit with movablecore_map

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/26/2012 07:15 PM, Wen Congyang wrote:
> Hi, hpa
>
> The problem is that:
> node1 address rang: [18G, 34G), and the user specifies movable map is [8G, 24G).
> We don't know node1's address range before numa init. So we can't prevent
> allocating boot memory in the range [24G, 34G).
>
> The movable memory should be classified as a non-RAM type in memblock. What
> do you want to say? We don't save type in memblock because we only
> add E820_RAM and E820_RESERVED_KERN to memblock.

We either need to keep the type or not add it to the memblocks.

	-hpa

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