On 10/4/21 11:36 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> We want to specify flags when hotplugging memory. Let's prepare to pass
> flags to memblock_add_node() by adjusting all existing users.
>
> Note that when hotplugging memory the system is already up and running
> and we might have concurrent memblock
Let's communicate driver-managed regions to memblock, to properly
teach kexec_file with CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK to not place images on
these memory regions.
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand
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mm/memory_hotplug.c | 5 -
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/memor
Let's add a flag that corresponds to IORESOURCE_SYSRAM_DRIVER_MANAGED,
indicating that we're dealing with a memory region that is never
indicated in the firmware-provided memory map, but always detected and
added by a driver.
Similar to MEMBLOCK_HOTPLUG, most infrastructure has to treat such memor
We want to specify flags when hotplugging memory. Let's prepare to pass
flags to memblock_add_node() by adjusting all existing users.
Note that when hotplugging memory the system is already up and running
and we might have concurrent memblock users: for example, while we're
hotplugging memory, kex
The description of MEMBLOCK_HOTPLUG is currently short and consequently
misleading: we're actually dealing with a memory region that might get
hotunplugged later (i.e., the platform+firmware supports it), yet it is
indicated in the firmware-provided memory map as system ram that will just
get used
If memblock_add_node() fails, we're most probably running out of memory.
While this is unlikely to happen, it can happen and having memory added
without a memblock can be problematic for architectures that use
memblock to detect valid memory. Let's fail in a nice way instead of
silently ignoring th
Architectures that require CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK=y, such as arm64,
don't cleanly support add_memory_driver_managed() yet. Most prominently,
kexec_file can still end up placing kexec images on such driver-managed
memory, resulting in undesired behavior, for example, having kexec images
located o