linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] memblock: export memblock

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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 16:46:10 +0800
From: liangxi Liu <lgs156412@...il.com>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, liangxi Liu <lgs156412@...il.com>, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] memblock: export memblock_free() to free reserved memory.

Yes. we have a reserved memory used for display the image, which needs
to be deleted from memblock.reserved list(memblock_free
()) after display and then released into the buddy system(free_reserved_page
()). Should I use memblock_free() or another API?


Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org> 于2024年6月26日周三 13:05写道：
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 08:16:52PM +0800, Guanshun Liu wrote:
> > On architectures that support the preservation of memblock metadata
> > after __init, allow drivers to call memblock_free() to free a
> > reservation configured in dts. This is a hack to support the
>
> "This is a hack" implies that it's not a proper solution, right?
>
> And anyway, memblock_free() will not actually free the memory after __init.
>
> > freeing of bootsplash reservations passed to Linux by the bootloader.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Guanshun Liu <lgs156412@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  mm/memblock.c | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
> > index 6d18485571b4..20e7f81fc076 100644
> > --- a/mm/memblock.c
> > +++ b/mm/memblock.c
> > @@ -848,6 +848,9 @@ void __init_memblock memblock_free(void *ptr, size_t size)
> >       if (ptr)
> >               memblock_phys_free(__pa(ptr), size);
> >  }
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(memblock_free);
> > +#endif
> >
> >  /**
> >   * memblock_phys_free - free boot memory block
> > --
> > 2.25.1
> >
>
> --
> Sincerely yours,
> Mike.