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Message-ID: <5617D878.5060903@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 08:08:40 -0700
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>,
Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@...fujitsu.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
tony.luck@...el.com, mel@....ul.ie, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
zhongjiang@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] mm: Introduce kernelcore=reliable option
On 10/09/2015 03:36 AM, Xishi Qiu wrote:
> I mean the mirrored region can not at the middle or end of the zone,
> BIOS should report the memory like this,
>
> e.g.
> BIOS
> node0: 0-4G mirrored, 4-8G mirrored, 8-16G non-mirrored
> node1: 16-24G mirrored, 24-32G non-mirrored
>
> OS
> node0: DMA DMA32 are both mirrored, NORMAL(4-8G), MOVABLE(8-16G)
> node1: NORMAL(16-24G), MOVABLE(24-32G)
I understand if the mirrored regions are always at the start of the zone
today, but is that somehow guaranteed going forward on all future hardware?
I think it's important to at least consider what we would do if DMA32
turned out to be non-reliable.
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