From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-oi0-f72.google.com (mail-oi0-f72.google.com [209.85.218.72]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 473716B0069 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2017 04:29:58 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-oi0-f72.google.com with SMTP id u193so4056706oie.4 for ; Fri, 01 Dec 2017 01:29:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com. [209.132.183.28]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 67si2215284oty.421.2017.12.01.01.29.57 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 01 Dec 2017 01:29:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 17:29:51 +0800 From: Dave Young Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: check pfn_valid first in zero_resv_unavail Message-ID: <20171201092951.GA2943@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com> References: <20171130060431.GA2290@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com> <20171130093521.3yxyq6xvo6zgaifc@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20171201085657.GA2291@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com> <20171201091930.5ddygjl23owfovrz@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171201091930.5ddygjl23owfovrz@dhcp22.suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michal Hocko Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pasha.tatashin@oracle.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org On 12/01/17 at 10:19am, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Fri 01-12-17 16:56:57, Dave Young wrote: > > On 11/30/17 at 10:35am, Michal Hocko wrote: > [...] > > > Can we exclude that range from the memblock allocator instead? E.g. what > > > happens if somebody allocates from that range? > > > > It is a EFI BGRT image buffer provided by firmware, they are reserved > > always and can not be used to allocate memory. > > Hmm, I see but I was actually suggesting to remove this range from the > memblock allocator altogether (memblock_remove) as it shouldn't be there > in the first place. Oh, I'm not sure because it is introduced as a way for efi to reserve boot services areas to be persistent across kexec reboot. See drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c: efi_mem_reserve(), BGRT is only one user of it, there is esrt and maybe other users, I do not know if it is safe :( > -- > Michal Hocko > SUSE Labs Thanks Dave -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org