Hi Yuntao, On 12/30/23 at 06:16pm, Baoquan He wrote: > On 12/29/23 at 12:10pm, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 11:31:04 +0800 Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > Imagine we have a crashkernel region 256M reserved under 4G, say [2G, 2G+256M]. > > > > > Then after excluding the 256M from a region, it should stop. But now, this patch > > > > > will make it continue scanning. Not sure if it's all in my mind. > > > > > > > > Hi Baoquan, > > > > > > > > Thank you for such a detailed reply. Now I finally understand why the code is > > > > written this way. > > > > > > > > However, if we can guarantee its correctness, wouldn't it be better to use the > > > > generic region removing logic? At least it is more concise and clear, and other > > > > people reading this code for the first time wouldn't get confused like me. > > > > > > > > As for your concern about the while loop, I think it wouldn't affect performance > > > > much because the total number of loops is small. > > > > > > Well, see below kexec-tools commit, you wouldn't say that. And when you > > > understand the code, you will feel a little uncomfortable about the > > > sustaining useless scanning. At least, we should stop scanning after > > > needed exluding is done. > > > > > > Or, we may need add a generic region removing function so that it > > > can be shared, e.g e820 memory region removing, memblock region removing. > > > Otherwise, I can't see why a specific region excluding need a generic > > > region removing function. > > > > So where do we now stand on this patchset? > > The patch 1 and 2 are good clean up. The patch 3 plus below one, the > entire is a good code improvement patch. > > [PATCH] crash_core: optimize crash_exclude_mem_range() > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231219163418.108591-1-ytcoode@xxxxxxxxx/T/#u Can you repost this patchset with some updating, e.g adding ack in patch 1 and 2, and squash below patch into patch 3? This will be easier for patch merging. [PATCH] crash_core: optimize crash_exclude_mem_range() https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231219163418.108591-1-ytcoode@xxxxxxxxx/T/#u And, you may need to drop below patchset since patch 2 conflicts with this patchset, and patch 1 is conflicting with fuqiang's patch. [PATCH 0/2] crash: fix potential cmem->ranges array overflow Thanks Baoquan _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
