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

[Jiang Liu]

Hi hpa and Tang,
	How do you think about the attached patches, which reserves memory
for hotplug from memblock/bootmem allocator at early booting stages?
	Logically we split the task into three parts:
1) Provide a mechanism to specify zone_movable[] by kernel parameter.
   Patch 1-4 from Tang achieves this goal by adding "movablecore_map" kernel
   parameter.
2) Reserve memory for hotplug by reusing information provided by "movablecore_map".
   Patch 5 from Tang achieve this goal. And the attached patches provides
   another way to achieve the same goal by calling memblock_reserve() and newly
   introduced memblock interfaces.
3) Automatically reserve memory for hotplug according to firmware provided
   information based on the attached patches.

Regards!
Gerry

On 11/27/2012 01:31 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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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