On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 03:56:28PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > On 20.04.21 11:09, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > The struct pages representing a reserved memory region are initialized > > using reserve_bootmem_range() function. This function is called for each > > reserved region just before the memory is freed from memblock to the buddy > > page allocator. > > > > The struct pages for MEMBLOCK_NOMAP regions are kept with the default > > values set by the memory map initialization which makes it necessary to > > have a special treatment for such pages in pfn_valid() and > > pfn_valid_within(). > > Just a general question while thinking about it: > > Would we right now initialize the memmap of these pages already via > memmap_init_zone()->memmap_init_range()? (IOW, not marking the > PageReserved?) Yep. These pages are part of memblock.memory so they are initialized in memmap_init_zone()->memmap_init_range() to the default values. -- Sincerely yours, Mike.
