Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] arm64: mm: Move reserve_crashkernel() into mem_init()

From: Will Deacon
Date: Thu Oct 15 2020 - 04:40:17 EST


On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 09:12:03PM +0200, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> crashkernel might reserve memory located in ZONE_DMA. We plan to delay
> ZONE_DMA's initialization after unflattening the devicetree and ACPI's
> boot table initialization, so move it later in the boot process.
> Specifically into mem_init(), this is the last place crashkernel will be
> able to reserve the memory before the page allocator kicks in and there is
> no need to do it earlier.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Please can you cc me on the whole series next time? I know different
maintainers have different preferences here, but I find it much easier to
figure out what's happening when I can see all of the changes together.

Thanks,

Will