Re: [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved

Martin J. Bligh
2005-08-09T21:16:37Z

--On Tuesday, August 09, 2005 20:41:00 +0100 Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 07:38:52AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>> pfn_valid() doesn't tell you it's RAM or not - it tells you whether you
>> have a backing struct page for that address. Could be an IO mapped device,
>> a small memory hole, whatever.
>
> The only things which have a struct page is RAM. Nothing else does.

That's not true at all. Every physical address covered by the machine
that we may need to access, plus every small hole we didn't use
discontigmem to exclude has a backing struct page. See e820 maps.

Unless you're speaking only with respect to ARM, in which case, I'll
bow to your knowledge, but it's certainly not true in general ...

M.