Re: [PATCH] mips: sgi-ip27: switch from DISCONTIGMEM to SPARSEMEM

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Thu Sep 12 2019 - 10:09:22 EST


On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 03:55:39PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> - reserved[0xd] [0x000000035bff8000-0x000000035bffffff], 0x0000000000008000 bytes flags: 0x0
>
> I have no idea which reservation this is, but it's not from one of the
> node data.

that's sparsemem's mem_section. And

free_bootmem_with_active_regions(node, end_pfn);

on the last node will free this reserved memory, when memory
is added node by node. This explains it.

So when resending the patch add my

Tested-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@xxxxxxx>

Thomas.

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