From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC 0/3] Mirrored memory support for boot time allocations
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 13:54:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1423259664.git.tony.luck@intel.com> (raw)
Platforms that support a mix of mirrored and regular memory are coming.
We'd like to use the mirrored memory for kernel code, data and dynamically
allocated data because our machine check recovery code cannot fix problems
there. This series modifies the memblock allocator to comprehend mirrored
memory and use it for all boot time allocations. Later I'll dig into page_alloc.c
to put the leftover mirrored memory into a zone to be used for kernel allocation
by slab/slob/slub and others.
You'll see why this is just RFC when you get to part 3.
Tony Luck (3):
mm/memblock: Add extra "flag" to memblock to allow selection of memory
based on attribute
mm/memblock: Allocate boot time data structures from mirrored memory
x86, mirror: x86 enabling - find mirrored memory ranges and tell
memblock
arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c | 4 +-
arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c | 4 +-
arch/x86/kernel/check.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/mm/memtest.c | 2 +-
include/linux/memblock.h | 43 ++++++++++------
mm/cma.c | 4 +-
mm/memblock.c | 113 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
mm/nobootmem.c | 12 ++++-
10 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
--
2.1.0
next reply other threads:[~2015-02-06 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-06 21:54 Tony Luck [this message]
2015-01-30 22:30 ` [RFC 1/3] mm/memblock: Add extra "flag" to memblock to allow selection of memory based on attribute Tony Luck
2015-02-03 22:38 ` [RFC 2/3] mm/memblock: Allocate boot time data structures from mirrored memory Tony Luck
2015-02-03 22:40 ` [RFC 3/3] x86, mirror: x86 enabling - find mirrored memory ranges and tell memblock Tony Luck
2015-05-18 8:09 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-05-18 17:36 ` Luck, Tony
2015-05-18 17:36 ` Luck, Tony
2015-02-06 22:28 ` [RFC 0/3] Mirrored memory support for boot time allocations Tony Luck
2015-02-06 22:28 ` Tony Luck
2015-05-18 7:58 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-05-18 8:23 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-05-18 8:23 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-05-18 17:42 ` Luck, Tony
2015-05-18 17:42 ` Luck, Tony
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