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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/setup: consolidate early memory reservations
Hi,

Any comments on this?

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 12:57:09PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
>
> Hi,
>
> David noticed that we do some of memblock_reserve() calls after allocations
> are possible:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/6ba6bde3-1520-5cd0-f987-32d543f0b79f@redhat.com
>
> For now there is no actual problem because in top-down mode we allocate
> from the end of the memory and in bottom-up mode we allocate above the
> kernel image. But there is a patch in the mm tree that allow bottom-up
> allocations below the kernel:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201217201214.3414100-2-guro@fb.com
>
> and with this change we may get a memory corruption if an allocation steps
> on some of the firmware areas that are yet to be reserved.
>
> The below patches consolidate early memory reservations done during
> setup_arch() so that memory used by firmware, bootloader, kernel text/data
> and the memory that should be excluded from the available memory for
> whatever other reason is reserved before memblock allocations are possible.
>
> The patches are vs v5.11-rc3-mmots-2021-01-12-02-00 as I think they are
> prerequisite for the memblock bottom-up changes, but if needed I can rebase
> then on another tree.
>
> v2:
> * get rid of trim_platform_memory_ranges() and call trim_snb_memory()
> directly, per Boris comments
> * massage changelog and comments to use passive voice, per Boris
> * add Acked-by and Reviewed-by, thanks Boris and David
>
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210115083255.12744-1-rppt@kernel.org
>
> Mike Rapoport (2):
> x86/setup: consolidate early memory reservations
> x86/setup: merge several reservations of start of the memory
>
> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 96 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
> 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.28.0
>

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.

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