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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>,
	Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	tony.luck@intel.com, mel@csn.ul.ie, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	zhongjiang@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] mm: Introduce kernelcore=reliable option
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 08:08:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5617D878.5060903@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5617989E.9070700@huawei.com>

On 10/09/2015 03:36 AM, Xishi Qiu wrote:
> I mean the mirrored region can not at the middle or end of the zone,
> BIOS should report the memory like this, 
> 
> e.g.
> BIOS
> node0: 0-4G mirrored, 4-8G mirrored, 8-16G non-mirrored
> node1: 16-24G mirrored, 24-32G non-mirrored
> 
> OS
> node0: DMA DMA32 are both mirrored, NORMAL(4-8G), MOVABLE(8-16G)
> node1: NORMAL(16-24G), MOVABLE(24-32G)

I understand if the mirrored regions are always at the start of the zone
today, but is that somehow guaranteed going forward on all future hardware?

I think it's important to at least consider what we would do if DMA32
turned out to be non-reliable.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-09 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-09 14:56 Taku Izumi
2015-10-09  6:46 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-10-09  9:24   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-10-09 10:36     ` Xishi Qiu
2015-10-09 15:08       ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2015-10-09 18:51         ` Luck, Tony
2015-10-12 10:32           ` Matt Fleming
2015-10-10  2:01       ` Xishi Qiu
2015-10-12 18:43         ` Luck, Tony
2015-10-13  9:51       ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-10-09 21:43   ` Luck, Tony
2015-10-14  1:19     ` Izumi, Taku

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