On 2015/10/20 8:34, Izumi, Taku wrote: > Hi Xishi, > >> On 2015/10/15 21:32, Taku Izumi wrote: >> >>> Xeon E7 v3 based systems supports Address Range Mirroring >>> and UEFI BIOS complied with UEFI spec 2.5 can notify which >>> ranges are reliable (mirrored) via EFI memory map. >>> Now Linux kernel utilize its information and allocates >>> boot time memory from reliable region. >>> >>> My requirement is: >>> - allocate kernel memory from reliable region >>> - allocate user memory from non-reliable region >>> >>> In order to meet my requirement, ZONE_MOVABLE is useful. >>> By arranging non-reliable range into ZONE_MOVABLE, >>> reliable memory is only used for kernel allocations. >>> >>> This patch extends existing "kernelcore" option and >>> introduces kernelcore=reliable option. By specifying >>> "reliable" instead of specifying the amount of memory, >>> non-reliable region will be arranged into ZONE_MOVABLE. >>> >>> Earlier discussion is at: >>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/9/24 >>> >> >> Hi Taku, >> >> If user don't want to waste a lot of memory, and he only set >> a few memory to mirrored memory, then the kernelcore is very >> small, right? That means OS will have a very small normal zone >> and a very large movable zone. > > Right. > >> Kernel allocation could only use the unmovable zone. As the >> normal zone is very small, the kernel allocation maybe OOM, >> right? > > Right. > >> Do you mean that we will reuse the movable zone in short-term >> solution and create a new zone(mirrored zone) in future? > > If there is that kind of requirements, I don't oppose > creating a new zone. >
As far as I know, some apps(e.g. date base) maybe could only use the normal zone. Thanks, Xishi Qiu > Sincerely, > Taku Izumi > > . > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
