Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:08:59 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Allocate memmap from hotadded memory |
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On Tue 02-07-19 18:52:01, Rashmica Gupta wrote: [...] > > 2) Why it was designed, what is the goal of the interface? > > 3) When it is supposed to be used? > > > > > There is a hardware debugging facility (htm) on some power chips. To use > this you need a contiguous portion of memory for the output to be dumped > to - and we obviously don't want this memory to be simultaneously used by > the kernel.
How much memory are we talking about here? Just curious. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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