linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv5 06/12] x86/boot/compressed: Handle unaccepted memory

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Message-ID: <fa512bb1-bf3d-fbf3-69da-1796653ec5bf@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 1 Jun 2022 12:34:24 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Dionna Amalie Glaze <dionnaglaze@...gle.com>,
        "Gupta, Pankaj" <pankaj.gupta@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 06/12] x86/boot/compressed: Handle unaccepted memory

Hi--

On 6/1/22 09:20, Dionna Amalie Glaze wrote:
> The memory accounting in Linux is probably the issue. Both times I ran
> the test were from a freshly booted VM. The test parses the output of
> $(free -k) to determine the amount of free memory it should allocate
> and write/read from, with a given stride of pages to skip before
> touching the next page.
> 
> We grab the third column of numbers from the Mem output that looks like this
> 
>                total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
> Mem:        65856604     4128688    48558952       11208    13168964    60942928
> Swap:        1953788      118124     1835664
> 
> So my workstation has 48558952 free bytes. We take that, give it to
> memtouch to allocate that much anonymous memory rounded down to the
> nearest MB with mmap and randomly read/write the buffer.
> 
> For an 8GB machine, the UEFI will have the initial 0-0xA000 memory and
> 0x10_0000 to 0xC00_0000 (beginning of mmio hole) prevalidated. The
> next 5GB is classified as the UEFI v2.9 memory type
> EFI_RESOURCE_MEMORY_UNACCEPTED, 0x1_4000_000 to 0x2_0000_0000.
> The Linux e820 map should see that range as unaccepted rather than
> EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY (i.e., EDK2's EFI_RESOURCE_SYSTEM_MEMORY), but
> I think it needs to be accounted as free conventional memory.
> 
> So when I see 2044MB free vs 7089MB free in my VMs, the two are
> roughly 5GB different.

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