Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] mm: report per-page metadata information

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To: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] mm: report per-page metadata information
From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 11:50:05 -0400
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@xxxxxxxxxx>, Sourav Panda <souravpanda@xxxxxxxxxx>, corbet@xxxxxxx, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, rafael@xxxxxxxxxx, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx, muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx, rppt@xxxxxxxxxx, rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, chenlinxuan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, yang.yang29@xxxxxxxxxx, tomas.mudrunka@xxxxxxxxx, bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx, ivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx, hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx, shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx, kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx, adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx, vbabka@xxxxxxx, Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx, surenb@xxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx, willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <1e99ff39-b1cf-48b8-8b6d-ba5391e00db5@redhat.com>

> > Adding reserved memory to MemTotal is a cleaner approach IMO as well.
> > But it changes the semantics of MemTotal, which may have compatibility
> > issues.
>
> I object.

Could you please elaborate what you object (and why): you object that
it will have compatibility issues, or  you object to include memblock
reserves into MemTotal?

Thanks,
Pasha

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