Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.180.67;
Date:   Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:28:31 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
        linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
        linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
        Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
        Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>,
        Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@android.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
        Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@arm.com>,
        CHANDAN VN <chandan.vn@samsung.com>,
        AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/9] arm64: kdump: No need to mark crashkernel pages
 manually PG_reserved
Message-ID: <20190125162830.GK25901@arrakis.emea.arm.com>
References: <20190114125903.24845-1-david@redhat.com>
 <20190114125903.24845-8-david@redhat.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20190114125903.24845-8-david@redhat.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Precedence: bulk

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 01:59:01PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> The crashkernel is reserved via memblock_reserve(). memblock_free_all()
> will call free_low_memory_core_early(), which will go over all reserved
> memblocks, marking the pages as PG_reserved.
> 
> So manually marking pages as PG_reserved is not necessary, they are
> already in the desired state (otherwise they would have been handed over
> to the buddy as free pages and bad things would happen).
> 
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> Cc: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> Cc: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
> Cc: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@android.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@arm.com>
> Cc: CHANDAN VN <chandan.vn@samsung.com>
> Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
> Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
> Reviewed-by: Matthias Brugger <mbrugger@suse.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>