Re: [Patch 8/8] kexec: allow to shrink reserved memory

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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:35:32 +0800
Amerigo Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:31:23 +0800
Amerigo Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    It's hidden from the system before mem_init() ?
Not sure, but probably yes. It is reserved in setup_arch() which is before mm_init() which calls mem_init().

Do you have any advice to free that reserved memory after boot? :)

Let's see arch/x86/mm/init.c::free_initmem()

Maybe it's all you want.

	- ClearPageReserved()
	- init_page_count()
	- free_page()
	- totalram_pages++
Just FYI: calling ClearPageReserved() caused an oops: "Unable to handle paging request".

I am trying to figure out why...

Hmm...then....memmap is not there.
pfn_valid() check will help you. What arch ? x86-64 ?

Hmm, yes, x86_64, but this code is arch-independent, I mean it should work or not work on all arch, no?

So I am afraid we need to use other API to free it...

Thanks.


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