Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] mm: report per-page metadata information

[David Hildenbrand]

On 02.11.23 16:50, Pasha Tatashin wrote:
> > > Adding reserved memory to MemTotal is a cleaner approach IMO as well.
> > > But it changes the semantics of MemTotal, which may have compatibility
> > > issues.
> >
> > I object.
>
> Could you please elaborate what you object (and why): you object that
> it will have compatibility issues, or  you object to include memblock
> reserves into MemTotal?

Sorry, I object to changing the semantics of MemTotal. MemTotal is 
traditionally the memory managed by the buddy, not all memory in the 
system. I know people/scripts that are relying on that [although it's 
been source of confusion a couple of times].

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb