Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/setup: don't remove E820_TYPE_RAM for pfn 0

From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Wed Jan 13 2021 - 03:57:34 EST


On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 09:40:16PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The first 4Kb of memory is a BIOS owned area and to avoid its allocation
> for the kernel it was not listed in e820 tables as memory. As the result,
> pfn 0 was never recognised by the generic memory management and it is not a
> part of neither node 0 nor ZONE_DMA.

So, since it never was added to memblock.memory structs, it was not
initialized by init_unavailable_mem, right?

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Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3