Re: [PATCH v2] MIPS: replace add_memory_region with memblock

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Thu Oct 08 2020 - 11:30:44 EST


On Thu, 8 Oct 2020, Serge Semin wrote:

> At least I don't see a decent reason to preserve them. The memory registration
> method does nearly the same sanity checks. The memory reservation function
> defers a bit in adding the being reserved memory first. That seems redundant,
> since the reserved memory won't be available for the system anyway. Do I miss
> something?

At the very least it serves informational purposes as it shows up in
/proc/iomem.

Maciej