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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:01:45 +0800 From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com> To: Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com> CC: wujianguo <wujianguo106@...il.com>, <hpa@...or.com>, <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <rob@...dley.net>, <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>, <laijs@...fujitsu.com>, <wency@...fujitsu.com>, <linfeng@...fujitsu.com>, <yinghai@...nel.org>, <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>, <minchan.kim@...il.com>, <mgorman@...e.de>, <rientjes@...gle.com>, <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Add movablecore_map boot option On 2012-11-28 11:47, Tang Chen wrote: > On 11/27/2012 11:10 AM, wujianguo wrote: >> >> Hi Tang, >> DMA address can't be set as movable, if some one boot kernel with >> movablecore_map=4G@...00000 or other memory region that contains DMA address, >> system maybe boot failed. Should this case be handled or mentioned >> in the change log and kernel-parameters.txt? > > Hi Wu, > > I think we can use MAX_DMA_PFN and MAX_DMA32_PFN to prevent setting DMA > address as movable. Just ignore the address lower than them, and set > the rest as movable. How do you think ? > > And, since we cannot figure out the minimum of memory kernel needs, I > think for now, we can just add some warning into kernel-parameters.txt. > > Thanks. :) On one other OS, there is a mechanism to dynamically convert pages from movable zones into normal zones. Regards! Gerry > >> >> Thanks, >> Jianguo Wu >> > > . > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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