Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] mm/memblock: introduce a new helper memblock_estimated_nr_free_pages()

Mike Rapoport
2024-08-11T16:38:46Z

From: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>

On Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:14:13 +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
> During bootup, system may need the number of free pages in the whole system
> to do some calculation before all pages are freed to buddy system. Usually
> this number is get from totalram_pages(). Since we plan to move the free
> pages accounting in __free_pages_core(), this value may not represent
> total free pages at the early stage, especially when
> CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is enabled.
>
> [...]

Applied to for-next branch of memblock.git tree, thanks!

[1/3] mm/memblock: introduce a new helper memblock_estimated_nr_free_pages()
commit: d0f8a8973f265f6a276f99d091af99edfb2b87de
[2/3] kernel/fork.c: get estimated free pages by memblock api
commit: 0910bf0ef85c5404aac94394cb31e076e4eb03f1
[3/3] s390/mm: get estimated free pages by memblock api
commit: cb088e38aab4c7e9ce711c18c66e851c8f4227bb

tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/memblock
branch: for-next

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Sincerely yours,
Mike.