Re: [PATCH] mips: sgi-ip27: switch from DISCONTIGMEM to SPARSEMEM

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Thu Sep 12 2019 - 11:58:57 EST


On September 12, 2019 3:09:12 PM GMT+01:00, Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 03:55:39PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
>> - reserved[0xd] [0x000000035bff8000-0x000000035bffffff],
>0x0000000000008000 bytes flags: 0x0
>>
>> I have no idea which reservation this is, but it's not from one of
>the
>> node data.
>
>that's sparsemem's mem_section. And
>
> free_bootmem_with_active_regions(node, end_pfn);
>
>on the last node will free this reserved memory, when memory
>is added node by node. This explains it.
>
>So when resending the patch add my
>
>Tested-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@xxxxxxx>

I was thinking about co-developed, can add both :)

>Thomas.


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Sincerely yours,
Mike