Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] x86/setup: consolidate early memory reservations

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Wed Mar 10 2021 - 12:52:54 EST


Any comments on these?

On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 12:04:04PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi,
>
> David noticed that we do some of memblock_reserve() calls after allocations
> are possible:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/6ba6bde3-1520-5cd0-f987-32d543f0b79f@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> The below patches consolidate early memory reservations done during
> setup_arch() so that memory used by firmware, bootloader, kernel text/data
> and the memory that should be excluded from the available memory for
> whatever other reason is reserved before memblock allocations are possible.
>
> The patches are rebased on v5.12-rc1 and I think x86 tree is the best way
> to merge them.
>
> v3:
> * rebase on v5.12-rc1
>
> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210128105711.10428-1-rppt@xxxxxxxxxx
> * get rid of trim_platform_memory_ranges() and call trim_snb_memory()
> directly, per Boris comments
> * massage changelog and comments to use passive voice, per Boris
> * add Acked-by and Reviewed-by, thanks Boris and David
>
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210115083255.12744-1-rppt@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> Mike Rapoport (2):
> x86/setup: consolidate early memory reservations
> x86/setup: merge several reservations of start of the memory
>
> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 95 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.28.0
>

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.