Re: [PATCHv3 0/2] mm/memblock: reuse memblock bottom-up allocation style

[Baoquan He]

On 12/28/18 at 11:00am, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> The bottom-up allocation style is introduced to cope with movable_node,
> where the limit inferior of allocation starts from kernel's end, due to
> lack of knowledge of memory hotplug info at this early time.
> Beside this original aim, 'kexec -c' prefers to reuse this style to alloc mem

Wondering what is 'kexec -c'.

> at lower address, since if the reserved region is beyond 4G, then it requires
> extra mem (default is 16M) for swiotlb. But at this time hotplug info has been

The default is 256M, not sure if we are talking about the same thing.

low_size = max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + (8UL << 20), 256UL << 20);

> got, the limit inferior can be extend to 0, which is done by this series
> 
> Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Vacek <neelx@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx,
> Cc: vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Pingfan Liu (2):
>   mm/memblock: extend the limit inferior of bottom-up after parsing
>     hotplug attr
>   x86/kdump: bugfix, make the behavior of crashkernel=X consistent with
>     kaslr
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/setup.c  |  9 +++++---
>  drivers/acpi/numa.c      |  4 ++++
>  include/linux/memblock.h |  1 +
>  mm/memblock.c            | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> 
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> 2.7.4
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