Re: [PATCH 0/1] mm: initialize struct pages in reserved regions outside of the zone ranges

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Dec 05 2020 - 00:11:19 EST


On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 20:32:37 -0500 Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm running with these patch applied on all instances as solution to
> the compaction crashes that started to trigger after the v5.9
> upgrade. It's applied on top of
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201201181502.2340-1-rppt@xxxxxxxxxx so
> that it boots and works fine even when there are memblock.reserved
> regions that don't overlap with the memblock.memory (as pfn 0 which is
> in memblock.reserved but not added to memblock.memory).

Are you planning on preparing an applicable-to-mainline version of this?