Re: [RFC] Free the reserved memblock when free cma pages

[Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>]

Hello,

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 02:13:58PM +0800, Wang, Yalin wrote:
> This patch add memblock_free to also free the reserved memblock,
> so that the cma pages are not marked as reserved memory in
> /sys/kernel/debug/memblock/reserved debug file
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yalin Wang <yalin.wang@sonymobile.com>
> ---
>  mm/cma.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
> index c17751c..f3ec756 100644
> --- a/mm/cma.c
> +++ b/mm/cma.c
> @@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ static int __init cma_activate_area(struct cma *cma)
>  				goto err;
>  		}
>  		init_cma_reserved_pageblock(pfn_to_page(base_pfn));
> +		memblock_free(__pfn_to_phys(base_pfn),
> +				pageblock_nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE);

Nitpick:

Couldn't we add memblock_free into init_cma_reserved_pageblock?
Because it should be pair with ClearPageReserved, I think.

In addition, please add description on memory reserve part
in cma_declare_contiguous.

>  	} while (--i);
>  
>  	mutex_init(&cma->lock);
> -- 
> 2.1.0
> 
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Minchan Kim

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