linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 14/17] x86/setup: simplify reserve

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Date:   Sun, 2 Aug 2020 20:02:23 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Emil Renner Berthing <kernel@...il.dk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/17] x86/setup: simplify reserve_crashkernel()


* Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org> wrote:

> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
> 
> * Replace magic numbers with defines
> * Replace memblock_find_in_range() + memblock_reserve() with
>   memblock_phys_alloc_range()
> * Stop checking for low memory size in reserve_crashkernel_low(). The
>   allocation from limited range will anyway fail if there is no enough
>   memory, so there is no need for extra traversal of memblock.memory
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>

Assuming that this got or will get tested with a crash kernel:

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>

Thanks,

	Ingo