Article 4Z1E2 How Linux figure out amount of RAM on a system

How Linux figure out amount of RAM on a system

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I think U-BOOT could do auto-detection. Does it pass this information to Linux? Or is this something users need to configure via some API programmatically? If latter, where in the source code should I expect to find it?

If I were to reserve some memory region (take it out of all memory Linux may know for memory management), what is the method?latest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA latest?i=Q_H4jAA70xw:zsVS0an9lUI:F7zBnMy latest?i=Q_H4jAA70xw:zsVS0an9lUI:V_sGLiP latest?d=qj6IDK7rITs latest?i=Q_H4jAA70xw:zsVS0an9lUI:gIN9vFwQ_H4jAA70xw
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