Re: [RFC] Free the reserved memblock when free cma pages

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On Tue 09-09-14 14:13:58, Wang, Yalin wrote:
> This patch add memblock_free to also free the reserved memblock,
> so that the cma pages are not marked as reserved memory in
> /sys/kernel/debug/memblock/reserved debug file

Why and is this even correct? init_cma_reserved_pageblock seems to be
doing __ClearPageReserved on each page in the page block.

> Signed-off-by: Yalin Wang <yalin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/cma.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
> index c17751c..f3ec756 100644
> --- a/mm/cma.c
> +++ b/mm/cma.c
> @@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ static int __init cma_activate_area(struct cma *cma)
>  				goto err;
>  		}
>  		init_cma_reserved_pageblock(pfn_to_page(base_pfn));
> +		memblock_free(__pfn_to_phys(base_pfn),
> +				pageblock_nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE);
>  	} while (--i);
>  
>  	mutex_init(&cma->lock);
> -- 
> 2.1.0

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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