Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] Introduce persistent memory pool

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu Sep 28 2023 - 09:33:35 EST


On 9/27/23 09:13, Stanislav Kinsburskii wrote:
> Once deposited, these pages can't be accessed by Linux anymore and thus
> must be preserved in "used" state across kexec, as hypervisor state is
> unware of kexec.

If Linux can't access them, they're not RAM any more. I'd much rather
remove them from the memory map and move on with life rather than
implement a bunch of new ABI that's got to be handed across kernels.