Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] mm/memblock: Add "reserve_mem" to reserved named memory at boot up
From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Wed Jun 19 2024 - 04:05:12 EST
On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 12:21:19PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 at 23:01, Alexander Graf <graf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So I would personally prefer for this code not to go in at all. But if
> it does go in (and Steven has already agreed to this), it needs a
> giant disclaimer that it is best effort and may get broken
> inadvertently by changes that may seem unrelated.
I think that reserve_mem= is way less intrusive than memmap= we anyway
have.
It will reserve memory and the documentation adequately warns that the
location of that memory might be at different physical addresses.
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Sincerely yours,
Mike.