From: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
To: "Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga" <azpijr@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>,
Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] memblock: keep reserve_mem regions out of KHO bootmem
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:37:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2vxzqzhhg8l3.fsf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261021211058.83483-1-azpijr@gmail.com> (Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga's message of "Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:10:44 +0200")
On Wed, Oct 21 2026, Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga wrote:
> On a KHO boot, a reserve_mem= region that can't be revived (new name,
> size or alignment) can be allocated from KHO bootmem, which the next
> kernel boots out of. With CONFIG_KEXEC_HANDOVER_DEBUG preserving it
> fails; without it, the next kernel's memmap ends up on top of it.
What's your use-case? Why are you adding new reserve_mem regions after
cold boot? I'd rather avoid making purely theoretical fixes.
[...]
--
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav
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From: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
To: "Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga" <azpijr@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>,
Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
"Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>,
Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] memblock: keep reserve_mem regions out of KHO bootmem
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:37:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2vxzqzhhg8l3.fsf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261021211058.83483-1-azpijr@gmail.com> (Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga's message of "Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:10:44 +0200")
On Wed, Oct 21 2026, Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga wrote:
> On a KHO boot, a reserve_mem= region that can't be revived (new name,
> size or alignment) can be allocated from KHO bootmem, which the next
> kernel boots out of. With CONFIG_KEXEC_HANDOVER_DEBUG preserving it
> fails; without it, the next kernel's memmap ends up on top of it.
What's your use-case? Why are you adding new reserve_mem regions after
cold boot? I'd rather avoid making purely theoretical fixes.
[...]
--
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-22 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-21 21:10 [RFC PATCH 0/2] memblock: keep reserve_mem regions out of KHO bootmem Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
2026-10-21 21:10 ` Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
2026-10-21 21:10 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] memblock: factor out the KHO bootmem check from memblock_alloc_hugetlb() Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
2026-10-21 21:10 ` Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
2026-10-21 21:20 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-21 21:10 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] memblock: don't allocate reserve_mem regions from KHO bootmem Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
2026-10-21 21:10 ` Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
2026-10-21 21:20 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-22 13:37 ` Pratyush Yadav [this message]
2026-10-22 13:37 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] memblock: keep reserve_mem regions out of " Pratyush Yadav
2026-10-22 20:16 ` Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
2026-10-22 20:16 ` Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
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