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To: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Pasha Tatashin" <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
"Pratyush Yadav" <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: "Alexander Graf" <graf@amazon.com>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Chen Pei" <cp0613@linux.alibaba.com>,
"George Guo" <guodongtai@kylinos.cn>,
"Kexin Liu" <liukexin@kylinos.cn>,
"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
"Shuah Khan" <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Sourabh Jain" <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org,
"Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga" <azpijr@gmail.com>,
"Mukesh Pilaniya" <mpilaniy@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] kho: skip zero-sized lowmem and global bootmem areas
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 10:47:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sashiko-outbox-210971@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261112-kho-bootmem-sizing-v3-3-f0c8d00295d5@kernel.org>
> The lowmem and the global bootmem areas can have zero size, for example
> when none or all of the memory is below ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT, or when
> either of those areas is explicitly set to zero with kho_bootmem=.
>
> For a zero-sized allocation memblock returns an address without reserving
> anything, and that empty area is recorded in kho_bootmem. If there is no
> memory below ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT, allocation of the empty lowmem area
> fails and KHO gets disabled.
>
> Extract a helper that checks for zero size and allocates memory from
> memblock, and use it to skip empty areas the same way as empty per-node
> areas are skipped.
>
> Fixes: 3dc92c311498 ("kexec: add Kexec HandOver (KHO) generation helpers")
> Reported-by: Chen Pei <cp0613@linux.alibaba.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261026131851.9942-1-cp0613@linux.alibaba.com
> Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga <azpijr@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Mukesh Pilaniya <mpilaniy@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues.
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Sashiko AI review · https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20261112-kho-bootmem-sizing-v3-0-f0c8d00295d5@kernel.org?part=3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-12 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-12 10:38 [PATCH v3 0/5] kho: fix bootmem sizing Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-11-12 10:38 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] kho: reject zero bootmem scale Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-11-12 10:47 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-12 13:30 ` Pratyush Yadav
2026-11-12 14:59 ` Pasha Tatashin
2026-11-12 10:38 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] kho: walk bootmem areas in address order Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-11-12 10:47 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-12 10:38 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] kho: skip zero-sized lowmem and global bootmem areas Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-11-12 10:47 ` sashiko-bot [this message]
2026-11-12 10:38 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] kho: fix bootmem sizing Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-11-12 10:47 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-12 10:38 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] kho: docs: update description of bootmem regions Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-11-12 10:47 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-12 13:48 ` Pratyush Yadav
2026-11-12 15:00 ` Pasha Tatashin
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