From: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: "Dave Young" <dyoung@redhat.com>,
"Nicolai Stange" <nicstange@gmail.com>,
"Ard Biesheuvel" <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Mika Penttilä" <mika.penttila@nextfour.com>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, "Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@suse.cz>,
"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] efi: efi_mem_reserve(): don't reserve through memblock after mm_init()
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 21:57:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170227215745.GA28416@codeblueprint.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170109133152.2izkcrzgzinxdwux@techsingularity.net>
On Mon, 09 Jan, at 01:31:52PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
>
> Well, you could put in a __init global variable about availability into
> mm/memblock.c and then check it in memblock APIs like memblock_reserve()
> to BUG_ON? I know BUG_ON is frowned upon but this is not likely to be a
> situation that can be sensibly recovered.
What about something like this?
BUG_ON() shouldn't actually be necessary because I couldn't think of a
situation where A) memblock would be unavailable and B) returning an
error would prevent us from making progress.
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2017-01-09 11:44 ` Matt Fleming
2017-01-09 13:31 ` Mel Gorman
2017-01-09 13:45 ` Matt Fleming
2017-02-27 21:57 ` Matt Fleming [this message]
2017-01-10 0:37 ` Dave Young
2017-01-10 12:51 ` Matt Fleming
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