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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de>,
	Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 09/16] kexec: enable KHO support for memory preservation
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 19:28:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z_agP1ohC3sVZrM7@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250407141626.GB1557073@nvidia.com>

On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 11:16:26AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2025 at 07:11:14PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> 
> KHO needs to provide a way to give back an allocated struct page/folio
> that can be freed back to the buddy alloactor, of the proper
> order. Whatever you call that function it belongs to KHO as it is
> KHO's primary responsibility to manage the buddy allocator and the
> struct pages.

If order is only important for freeing memory back to page allocator, you
don't really need it. Freeing contiguous power-of-two number of pages with
proper alignment will give the same result, just a tad slower.
 
> Jason
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-04-09 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-20  1:55 [PATCH v5 00/16] kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO) Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-20  1:55 ` [PATCH v5 01/16] kexec: define functions to map and unmap segments Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-20  1:55 ` [PATCH v5 02/16] mm/mm_init: rename init_reserved_page to init_deferred_page Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-20  7:10   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2025-03-20 17:15     ` Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-20  1:55 ` [PATCH v5 03/16] memblock: add MEMBLOCK_RSRV_KERN flag Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-20  1:55 ` [PATCH v5 04/16] memblock: Add support for scratch memory Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-20  1:55 ` [PATCH v5 05/16] memblock: introduce memmap_init_kho_scratch() Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-20  1:55 ` [PATCH v5 06/16] hashtable: add macro HASHTABLE_INIT Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-20  1:55 ` [PATCH v5 07/16] kexec: add Kexec HandOver (KHO) generation helpers Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-21 13:34   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-23 19:02     ` Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-24 16:28       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-25  0:21         ` Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-25  2:20           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-24 18:40   ` Frank van der Linden
2025-03-25 19:19     ` Mike Rapoport
2025-03-25 21:56       ` Frank van der Linden
2025-03-26 11:59         ` Mike Rapoport
2025-03-26 16:25           ` Frank van der Linden
2025-03-20  1:55 ` [PATCH v5 08/16] kexec: add KHO parsing support Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-20  1:55 ` [PATCH v5 09/16] kexec: enable KHO support for memory preservation Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-21 13:46   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-22 19:12     ` Mike Rapoport
2025-03-23 18:55       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-24 18:18         ` Mike Rapoport
2025-03-24 20:07           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-26 12:07             ` Mike Rapoport
2025-03-23 19:07     ` Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-25  2:04       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-27 10:03   ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-03-27 13:31     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-27 17:28       ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-03-28 12:53         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-04-02 16:44         ` Changyuan Lyu
2025-04-02 16:47           ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-04-02 18:37             ` Pasha Tatashin
2025-04-02 18:49               ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-04-02 19:16   ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-04-03 11:42     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-04-03 13:58       ` Mike Rapoport
2025-04-03 14:24         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-04-04  9:54           ` Mike Rapoport
2025-04-04 12:47             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-04-04 13:53               ` Mike Rapoport
2025-04-04 14:30                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-04-04 16:24                   ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-04-04 17:31                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-04-06 16:13                     ` Mike Rapoport
2025-04-06 16:11                   ` Mike Rapoport
2025-04-07 14:16                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-04-07 16:31                       ` Mike Rapoport
2025-04-07 17:03                         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-04-09  9:06                           ` Mike Rapoport
2025-04-09 12:56                             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-04-09 13:58                               ` Mike Rapoport
2025-04-09 15:37                                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-04-09 16:19                                   ` Mike Rapoport
2025-04-09 16:28                                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-04-10 16:51                                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-04-10 17:31                                         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-04-09 16:28                       ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2025-04-09 18:32                         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-04-04 16:15                 ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-04-06 16:34                   ` Mike Rapoport
2025-04-07 14:23                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-04-03 13:57     ` Mike Rapoport
2025-04-11  4:02     ` Changyuan Lyu
2025-04-03 15:50   ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-04-03 16:10     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-04-03 17:37       ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-04-04 12:54         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-04-04 15:39           ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-04-09  8:35       ` Mike Rapoport
2025-03-20  1:55 ` [PATCH v5 10/16] kexec: add KHO support to kexec file loads Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-21 13:48   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-20  1:55 ` [PATCH v5 11/16] kexec: add config option for KHO Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-20  7:10   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2025-03-20 17:18     ` Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-24  4:18   ` Dave Young
2025-03-24 19:26     ` Pasha Tatashin
2025-03-25  1:24       ` Dave Young
2025-03-25  3:07         ` Dave Young
2025-03-25  6:57     ` Baoquan He
2025-03-25  8:36       ` Dave Young
2025-03-26  9:17         ` Dave Young
2025-03-26 11:28           ` Mike Rapoport
2025-03-26 12:09             ` Dave Young
2025-03-25 14:04       ` Pasha Tatashin
2025-03-20  1:55 ` [PATCH v5 12/16] arm64: add KHO support Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-20  7:13   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2025-03-20  8:30     ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2025-03-20 23:29     ` Changyuan Lyu
2025-04-11  3:47   ` Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-20  1:55 ` [PATCH v5 13/16] x86/setup: use memblock_reserve_kern for memory used by kernel Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-20  1:55 ` [PATCH v5 14/16] x86: add KHO support Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-20  1:55 ` [PATCH v5 15/16] memblock: add KHO support for reserve_mem Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-20  1:55 ` [PATCH v5 16/16] Documentation: add documentation for KHO Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-20 14:45   ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-03-21  6:33     ` Changyuan Lyu
2025-03-21 13:46       ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-03-25 14:19 ` [PATCH v5 00/16] kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO) Pasha Tatashin
2025-03-25 15:03   ` Mike Rapoport

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