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RE: [PATCH] mm: Introduce kernelcore=reliable option

From "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject RE: [PATCH] mm: Introduce kernelcore=reliable option
Date 2015-10-21 20:20 +0200
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+	if (reliable_kernelcore) {
+		for_each_memblock(memory, r) {
+			if (memblock_is_mirror(r))
+				continue;

Should we have a safety check here that there is some mirrored memory?  If you give
the kernelcore=reliable option on a machine which doesn't have any mirror configured,
then we'll mark all memory as removable.  What happens then?  Do kernel allocations
fail?  Or do they fall back to using removable memory?

Is there a /proc or /sys file that shows the current counts for the removable zone?  I just
tried this patch with a high percentage of memory marked as mirror ... but I'd like to see
how much is actually being used to tune things a bit.

-Tony
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RE: [PATCH] mm: Introduce kernelcore=reliable option "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2015-10-21 20:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: Introduce kernelcore=reliable option Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-10-22 12:10 +0200
    RE: [PATCH] mm: Introduce kernelcore=reliable option "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2015-10-23 01:30 +0200
      RE: [PATCH] mm: Introduce kernelcore=reliable option "Izumi, Taku" <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-10-23 03:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] mm: Introduce kernelcore=reliable option "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2015-10-23 03:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] mm: Introduce kernelcore=reliable option Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-10-30 07:30 +0100
            RE: [PATCH] mm: Introduce kernelcore=reliable option "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2015-10-30 20:50 +0100

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