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At least with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100000, if there is < 4 MiB of contiguous free memory available at this point, the kernel will crash and burn because memblock_phys_alloc_range() returns 0 on failure, which leads memblock_phys_free() to throw the first 4 MiB of physical memory to the wolves. At a minimum it should fail gracefully with a meaningful diagnostic, but in fact everything seems to work fine without the weird reserve allocation. Signed-off-by: Philip Redkin <me@rarity.fan> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/94b3e98f-96a7-3560-1f76-349eb95ccf7f@rarity.fan
Linux kernel
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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.