Re: uninitialized pmem struct pages

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Mon Jan 04 2021 - 10:34:35 EST


On Mon 04-01-21 16:15:23, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 04.01.21 16:10, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> Do the physical addresses you see fall into the same section as boot
> memory? Or what's around these addresses?

Yes I am getting a garbage for the first struct page belonging to the
pmem section [1]
[ 0.020161] ACPI: SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 [mem 0x100000000-0x603fffffff]
[ 0.020163] ACPI: SRAT: Node 4 PXM 4 [mem 0x6060000000-0x11d5fffffff] non-volatile

The pfn without the initialized struct page is 0x6060000. This is a
first pfn in a section.

---
[1] it shares the same memory block with the regular memory as those
are in the same 2G range.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs