Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] page_alloc: Bootmem limit with movablecore_map

From: Jianguo Wu
Date: Mon Nov 26 2012 - 19:59:16 EST


On 2012/11/26 23:48, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> On 11/26/2012 05:15 AM, Tang Chen wrote:
>>
>> Hi Wu,
>>
>> That is really a problem. And, before numa memory got initialized,
>> memblock subsystem would be used to allocate memory. I didn't find any
>> approach that could fully address it when I making the patches. There
>> always be risk that memblock allocates memory on ZONE_MOVABLE. I think
>> we can only do our best to prevent it from happening.
>>
>> Your patch is very helpful. And after a shot look at the code, it seems
>> that acpi_numa_memory_affinity_init() is an architecture dependent
>> function. Could we do this somewhere which is not depending on the
>> architecture ?
>>
>
> The movable memory should be classified as a non-RAM type in memblock,
> that way we will not allocate from it early on.
>
> -hpa


yep, we can put movable memory in reserved.regions in memblock.

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