memblock structure

Ronit Halder ronit.linux at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 10:11:47 EDT 2016


On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 1:45 AM, Silvan Jegen <me at sillymon.ch> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 06:12:50PM +0530, Ronit Halder wrote:
>> There are three memblock_type members memory , reserved and physmem in
>> memblock structure.
>> What is the significance of each member?
>
> According to
>
> https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/mm/linux-mm-1.md
>
> they describe the type of the memory memory block.
I get the reserved type, it is reserved memory. But, what is the
meaning of memory and physmem type memblock.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Silvan
>



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