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UEFI 2.8 defines an EFI_MEMORY_SP attribute bit to augment the interpretation of the EFI Memory Types as "reserved for a specific purpose". The intent of this bit is to allow the OS to identify precious or scarce memory resources and optionally manage it separately from EfiConventionalMemory. As defined older OSes that do not know about this attribute are permitted to ignore it and the memory will be handled according to the OS default policy for the given memory type. In other words, this "specific purpose" hint is deliberately weaker than EfiReservedMemoryType in that the system continues to operate if the OS takes no action on the attribute. The risk of taking no action is potentially unwanted / unmovable kernel allocations from the designated resource that prevent the full realization of the "specific purpose". For example, consider a system with a high-bandwidth memory pool. Older kernels are permitted to boot and consume that memory as conventional "System-RAM" newer kernels may arrange for that memory to be set aside (soft reserved) by the system administrator for a dedicated high-bandwidth memory aware application to consume. Specifically, this mechanism allows for the elimination of scenarios where platform firmware tries to game OS policy by lying about ACPI SLIT values, i.e. claiming that a precious memory resource has a high distance to trigger the OS to avoid it by default. This reservation hint allows platform-firmware to instead tell the truth about performance characteristics by indicate to OS memory management to put immovable allocations elsewhere. Implement simple detection of the bit for EFI memory table dumps and save the kernel policy for a follow-on change. Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.