linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/mm: Identify the end of the kernel area to be reserved

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Date:   Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:06:27 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     "Lendacky, Thomas" <Thomas.Lendacky@....com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>, Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/mm: Identify the end of the kernel area to be
 reserved

On 6/14/19 2:15 PM, Lendacky, Thomas wrote:
> +	/*
> +	 * The memory occupied from _text to here, __end_of_kernel_reserve, is
> +	 * automatically reserved in setup_arch(). Anything after here must be
> +	 * explicitly reserved using memblock_reserve() or it will be discarded
> +	 * and treated as available memory.
> +	 */
> +	__end_of_kernel_reserve = .;

This new stuff looks really nice to me, including the comments.  Thanks
for doing those!

For both patches:

Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>