Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] x86/setup: consolidate early memory reservations

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Thu Mar 18 2021 - 02:54:42 EST


Another gentle ping.

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 07:52:13PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Any comments on these?
>
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 12:04:04PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > David noticed that we do some of memblock_reserve() calls after allocations
> > are possible:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/6ba6bde3-1520-5cd0-f987-32d543f0b79f@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > The below patches consolidate early memory reservations done during
> > setup_arch() so that memory used by firmware, bootloader, kernel text/data
> > and the memory that should be excluded from the available memory for
> > whatever other reason is reserved before memblock allocations are possible.
> >
> > The patches are rebased on v5.12-rc1 and I think x86 tree is the best way
> > to merge them.
> >
> > v3:
> > * rebase on v5.12-rc1
> >
> > v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210128105711.10428-1-rppt@xxxxxxxxxx
> > * get rid of trim_platform_memory_ranges() and call trim_snb_memory()
> > directly, per Boris comments
> > * massage changelog and comments to use passive voice, per Boris
> > * add Acked-by and Reviewed-by, thanks Boris and David
> >
> > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210115083255.12744-1-rppt@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Mike Rapoport (2):
> > x86/setup: consolidate early memory reservations
> > x86/setup: merge several reservations of start of the memory
> >
> > arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 95 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> > 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.28.0
> >
>
> --
> Sincerely yours,
> Mike.

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Sincerely yours,
Mike.