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Date:   Thu, 10 Dec 2020 10:28:57 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
        Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
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        Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
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        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: memblock: enforce overlap of memory.memblock
 and memory.reserved
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On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 11:43:03PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
> 
> memblock does not require that the reserved memory ranges will be a subset
> of memblock.memory.
> 
> As the result there maybe reserved pages that are not in the range of any
> zone or node because zone and node boundaries are detected based on
> memblock.memory and pages that only present in memblock.reserved are not
> taken into account during zone/node size detection.
> 
> Make sure that all ranges in memblock.reserved are added to memblock.memory
> before calculating node and zone boundaries.
> 
> Fixes: 73a6e474cb37 ("mm: memmap_init: iterate over memblock regions rather that check each PFN")
> Reported-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/memblock.h |  1 +
>  mm/memblock.c            | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  mm/page_alloc.c          |  7 +++++++
>  3 files changed, 32 insertions(+)


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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

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