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On Intel TDX guest, unaccepted memory is unusable free memory which is not managed by buddy, until it's accepted by guest. Before that, it cannot be accessed by the first kernel as well as the kexec'ed kernel. The kexec'ed kernel will skip these pages and fill in zero data for the reader of vmcore. The dump tool like makedumpfile creates a page descriptor (size 24 bytes) for each non-free page, including zero data page, but it will not create descriptor for free pages. If it is not able to distinguish these unaccepted pages with zero data pages, a certain amount of space will be wasted in proportion (~1/170). In fact, as a special kind of free page the unaccepted pages should be excluded, like the real free pages. Export the page type PAGE_UNACCEPTED_MAPCOUNT_VALUE to vmcoreinfo, so that dump tool can identify whether a page is unaccepted. [zhiquan1.li@intel.com: fix docs: "Title underline too short" warning] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240809114854.3745464-5-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250405060610.860465-1-zhiquan1.li@intel.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240809114854.3745464-5-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250403030801.758687-1-zhiquan1.li@intel.com Signed-off-by: Zhiquan Li <zhiquan1.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Zhiquan Li <zhiquan1.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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 reStructuredText 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.