linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] RISC-V: Fix memory reservation in setup

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.9999.1906281348441.3867@viisi.sifive.com>
Date:   Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:59:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>
To:     Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@....com>
cc:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@....com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] RISC-V: Fix memory reservation in
 setup_bootmem()

On Fri, 7 Jun 2019, Anup Patel wrote:

> Currently, the setup_bootmem() reserves memory from RAM start to the
> kernel end. This prevents us from exploring ways to use the RAM below
> (or before) the kernel start hence this patch updates setup_bootmem()
> to only reserve memory from the kernel start to the kernel end.
> 
> Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@....com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Thanks, queued for v5.3.


- Paul