Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Dec 2017 10:19:30 +0100 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: check pfn_valid first in zero_resv_unavail |
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On Fri 01-12-17 16:56:57, Dave Young wrote: > On 11/30/17 at 10:35am, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > > Can we exclude that range from the memblock allocator instead? E.g. what > > happens if somebody allocates from that range? > > It is a EFI BGRT image buffer provided by firmware, they are reserved > always and can not be used to allocate memory.
Hmm, I see but I was actually suggesting to remove this range from the memblock allocator altogether (memblock_remove) as it shouldn't be there in the first place. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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