Hi,
On Wed, Jan 17 2024, Alexander Graf wrote:
> When we finish populating our memory, we don't want to lose the scratch
> region as memory we can use for useful data. Do do that, we mark it as
> CMA memory. That means that any allocation within it only happens with
> movable memory which we can then happily discard for the next kexec.
>
> That way we don't lose the scratch region's memory anymore for
> allocations after boot.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <graf@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
[...]
> @@ -2188,6 +2185,16 @@ static void __init __free_pages_memory(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> }
> }
>
> +static void mark_phys_as_cma(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end)
> +{
> + ulong start_pfn = pageblock_start_pfn(PFN_DOWN(start));
> + ulong end_pfn = pageblock_align(PFN_UP(end));
> + ulong pfn;
> +
> + for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn += pageblock_nr_pages)
> + set_pageblock_migratetype(pfn_to_page(pfn), MIGRATE_CMA);
This fails to compile if CONFIG_CMA is disabled. I think you should add
it as a dependency for CONFIG_MEMBLOCK_SCRATCH.
> +}
> +
> static unsigned long __init __free_memory_core(phys_addr_t start,
> phys_addr_t end)
> {
> @@ -2249,6 +2256,17 @@ static unsigned long __init free_low_memory_core_early(void)
>
> memmap_init_reserved_pages();
>
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEMBLOCK_SCRATCH)) {
> + /*
> + * Mark scratch mem as CMA before we return it. That way we
> + * ensure that no kernel allocations happen on it. That means
> + * we can reuse it as scratch memory again later.
> + */
> + __for_each_mem_range(i, &memblock.memory, NULL, NUMA_NO_NODE,
> + MEMBLOCK_SCRATCH, &start, &end, NULL)
> + mark_phys_as_cma(start, end);
> + }
> +
> /*
> * We need to use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of NODE_DATA(0)->node_id
> * because in some case like Node0 doesn't have RAM installed
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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav
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