Re: [PATCH 0/3] Restructure init sequence to set aside reserved memory earlier

[Oreoluwa Babatunde]

On 2/9/2024 4:29 PM, Oreoluwa Babatunde wrote:
> The loongarch, openric, and sh architectures allocate memory from
> memblock before it gets the chance to set aside reserved memory regions.
> This means that there is a possibility for memblock to allocate from
> memory regions that are supposed to be reserved.
>
> This series makes changes to the arch specific setup code to call the
> functions responsible for setting aside the reserved memory regions earlier
> in the init sequence.
> Hence, by the time memblock starts being used to allocate memory, the
> reserved memory regions should already be set aside, and it will no
> longer be possible for allocations to come from them.
>
> I am currnetly using an arm64 device, and so I will need assistance from
> the relevant arch maintainers to help check if this breaks anything from
> compilation to device bootup.
>
> Oreoluwa Babatunde (3):
>   loongarch: Call arch_mem_init() before platform_init() in the init
>     sequence
>   openrisc: Call setup_memory() earlier in the init sequence
>   sh: Call paging_init() earlier in the init sequence
>
>  arch/loongarch/kernel/setup.c | 2 +-
>  arch/openrisc/kernel/setup.c  | 6 +++---
>  arch/sh/kernel/setup.c        | 4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Hello,

Loongarch patch has already merged for this, but review is still pending
from openrisc and sh architectures.
Could someone please comment on these?

Regards,

Oreoluwa