On 16.09.21 12:29, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 12:09:27PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:I think the first sentence about reserving memory before memblock allocations are possible is important and I think we should keep it.I expanded that comment this way: /* * Do some memory reservations *before* memory is added to memblock, so * memblock allocations won't overwrite it. * * After this point, everything still needed from the boot loader or * firmware or kernel text should be early reserved or marked not RAM in * e820. All other memory is free game. * * This call needs to happen before e820__memory_setup() which calls the * xen_memory_setup() on Xen dom0 which relies on the fact that those * early reservations have happened already. */
Yes, this seems to be an accurate description. Juergen
OpenPGP_0xB0DE9DD628BF132F.asc
Description: OpenPGP public key
OpenPGP_signature
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
