On 06/09/25 at 09:03am, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 21.05.25 17:29, Alexander Graf wrote: ...... > > Using CMA allocations has two advantages: > > > > 1) Faster by 4-50 ms per 100 MiB. There is no more need to copy in the > > hot phase. > > 2) More robust. Even if by accident some page is still in use for DMA, > > the new kernel image will be safe from that access because it resides > > in a memory region that is considered allocated in the old kernel and > > has a chance to reinitialize that component. > > > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <g...@amazon.com> > > > Ping? Not seeing this patch in Linus' master tree :)
I saw Andrew had added this to his mm-nonmem-unstable, it could be dropped later because of new version posting. I would like to ACK this patch, let's see how it's going. One thing is if IOMMU is on, the devices of no .shutdown method could still be on flight and look up the IO page table and corrupt kernel, that's another story. Acked-by: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com>
