Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND 2/3] mm: memblock: show all region flags in debugfs

From: Mike Rapoport

Date: Mon Aug 24 2026 - 11:46:27 EST


On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 10:09:09AM +0800, Meijing Zhao wrote:
> From: Meijing Zhao <zhaomeijing@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Commit 493f349e38d0 ("memblock: Add flags and nid info in memblock
> debugfs") made memblock_debug_show() stop after finding the first set
> flag. A memblock region can carry multiple flags, so the remaining flags
> are hidden from debugfs.
>
> In particular, memory allocated for HugeTLB pages is reserved with both
> MEMBLOCK_RSRV_KERN and MEMBLOCK_RSRV_HUGETLB, but debugfs only reports
> RSV_KERN.
>
> Walk all bits in the region flags and print every set flag separated by
> "|". Keep walking beyond flagname[] so that a set flag without a known
> name is reported as UNKNOWN rather than silently ignored.
>
> A HugeTLB reservation is now shown as:
>
> RSV_KERN|RSV_HUGETLB
>
> instead of:
>
> RSV_KERN
>
> Fixes: 493f349e38d0 ("memblock: Add flags and nid info in memblock debugfs")
> Signed-off-by: Meijing Zhao <zhaomeijing@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memblock.c | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
> index f2952d725c10..36a8d2a9378d 100644
> --- a/mm/memblock.c
> +++ b/mm/memblock.c
> @@ -2895,7 +2895,9 @@ static int memblock_debug_show(struct seq_file *m, void *private)
> struct memblock_region *reg;
> int i, j, nid;
> unsigned int count = ARRAY_SIZE(flagname);
> + unsigned int flags;
> phys_addr_t end;
> + bool first;
>
> for (i = 0; i < type->cnt; i++) {
> reg = &type->regions[i];
> @@ -2909,16 +2911,20 @@ static int memblock_debug_show(struct seq_file *m, void *private)
> else
> seq_printf(m, "%4c ", 'x');
> if (reg->flags) {
> - for (j = 0; j < count; j++) {
> - if (reg->flags & (1U << j)) {
> - seq_printf(m, "%s\n", flagname[j]);
> - break;
> - }
> + flags = reg->flags;
> + first = true;

first and flags can be declared here.

> + for (j = 0; flags; j++, flags >>= 1) {
> + if (!(flags & 1))
> + continue;
> + if (!first)
> + seq_putc(m, '|');
> + seq_puts(m, j < count && flagname[j] ?
> + flagname[j] : "UNKNOWN");

Can we really have both j < count and !flagname[j]?

> + first = false;
> }
> - if (j == count)
> - seq_printf(m, "%s\n", "UNKNOWN");
> + seq_putc(m, '\n');
> } else {
> - seq_printf(m, "%s\n", "NONE");
> + seq_puts(m, "NONE\n");

No need to change this

> }
> }
> return 0;
> --
> 2.25.1
>

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.