From: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>,
Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>,
Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>,
AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>,
kernel-team@android.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] arm64: kexec_file_load vs memory reservations
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 15:22:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <edb33645-864f-6a2d-ce57-c542f8b79209@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210429133533.1750721-1-maz@kernel.org>
Hi Marc,
On 29/04/2021 14:35, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> It recently became apparent that using kexec with kexec_file_load() on
> arm64 is pretty similar to playing Russian roulette.
>
> Depending on the amount of memory, the HW supported and the firmware
> interface used, your secondary kernel may overwrite critical memory
> regions without which the secondary kernel cannot boot (the GICv3 LPI
> tables being a prime example of such reserved regions).
>
> It turns out that there is at least two ways for reserved memory
> regions to be described to kexec: /proc/iomem for the userspace
> implementation, and memblock.reserved for kexec_file.
One is spilled into the other by request_standard_resources()...
> And of course,
> our LPI tables are only reserved using the resource tree, leading to
> the aforementioned stamping.
Presumably well after efi_init() has run...
> Similar things could happen with ACPI tables as well.
efi_init() calls reserve_regions(), which has:
| /* keep ACPI reclaim memory intact for kexec etc. */
| if (md->type == EFI_ACPI_RECLAIM_MEMORY)
| memblock_reserve(paddr, size);
This is also what stops mm from allocating them, as memblock-reserved gets copied into the
PG_Reserved flag by free_low_memory_core_early()'s calls to reserve_bootmem_region().
Is your machines firmware putting them in a region with a different type?
(The UEFI spec has something to say: see 2.3.6 "AArch64 Platforms":
| ACPI Tables loaded at boot time can be contained in memory of type EfiACPIReclaimMemory
| (recommended) or EfiACPIMemoryNVS
NVS would fail the is_usable_memory() check earlier, so gets treated as nomap)
Thanks,
James
> On my 24xA53 system artificially limited to 256MB of RAM (yes, it
> boots with that little memory), trying to kexec a secondary kernel
> failed every times. I can only presume that this was mostly tested
> using kdump, which preserves the entire kernel memory range.
>
> This small series aims at triggering a discussion on what are the
> expectations for kexec_file, and whether we should unify the two
> reservation mechanisms.
>
> And in the meantime, it gets things going...
>
> Marc Zyngier (2):
> firmware/efi: Tell memblock about EFI reservations
> ACPI: arm64: Reserve the ACPI tables in memblock
>
> arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c | 1 +
> drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-02 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-29 13:35 [PATCH 0/2] arm64: kexec_file_load vs memory reservations Marc Zyngier
2021-04-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] firmware/efi: Tell memblock about EFI reservations Marc Zyngier
2021-05-03 18:56 ` Moritz Fischer
2021-05-13 3:20 ` Dave Young
2021-05-13 11:11 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-04-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: arm64: Reserve the ACPI tables in memblock Marc Zyngier
2021-05-03 18:57 ` Moritz Fischer
2021-05-12 18:04 ` [PATCH 0/2] arm64: kexec_file_load vs memory reservations Marc Zyngier
2021-05-13 3:17 ` Dave Young
2021-05-13 11:07 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-05-18 11:48 ` Will Deacon
2021-05-18 14:23 ` Bhupesh Sharma
2021-05-19 15:19 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-05-25 16:22 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-06-02 14:22 ` James Morse [this message]
2021-06-02 15:59 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-06-02 16:58 ` James Morse
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