On 16 November 2015 at 20:00, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 07:32:35PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> Take the new memblock attribute MEMBLOCK_NOMAP into account when >> deciding whether a certain region is or should be covered by the >> kernel direct mapping. > > It's probably worth looking at this as a replacement to the way > arm_memblock_steal() works, provided NOMAP doesn't result in the > memory being passed to the kernel allocators. Thoughts? > Yes. The primary reason for NOMAP is that the memory is not removed, so we don't lose the annotation that it is memory (which might be useful, for instance, for /dev/mem attribute handling) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>