From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Allow arch override of non boot memory resource names
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 15:36:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873694h4g3.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200326180730.4754-3-james.morse@arm.com> (James Morse's message of "Thu, 26 Mar 2020 18:07:29 +0000")
James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> writes:
> Memory added to the system by hotplug has a 'System RAM' resource created
> for it. This is exposed to user-space via /proc/iomem.
>
> This poses problems for kexec on arm64. If kexec decides to place the
> kernel in one of these newly onlined regions, the new kernel will find
> itself booting from a region not described as memory in the firmware
> tables.
>
> Arm64 doesn't have a structure like the e820 memory map that can be
> re-written when memory is brought online. Instead arm64 uses the UEFI
> memory map, or the memory node from the DT, sometimes both. We never
> rewrite these.
>
> Allow an architecture to specify a different name for these hotplug
> regions.
Gah. No.
Please find a way to pass the current memory map to the loaded kexec'd
kernel.
Starting a kernel with no way for it to know what the current memory map
is just plain scary.
Eric
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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Allow arch override of non boot memory resource names
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 15:36:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873694h4g3.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200326180730.4754-3-james.morse@arm.com> (James Morse's message of "Thu, 26 Mar 2020 18:07:29 +0000")
James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> writes:
> Memory added to the system by hotplug has a 'System RAM' resource created
> for it. This is exposed to user-space via /proc/iomem.
>
> This poses problems for kexec on arm64. If kexec decides to place the
> kernel in one of these newly onlined regions, the new kernel will find
> itself booting from a region not described as memory in the firmware
> tables.
>
> Arm64 doesn't have a structure like the e820 memory map that can be
> re-written when memory is brought online. Instead arm64 uses the UEFI
> memory map, or the memory node from the DT, sometimes both. We never
> rewrite these.
>
> Allow an architecture to specify a different name for these hotplug
> regions.
Gah. No.
Please find a way to pass the current memory map to the loaded kexec'd
kernel.
Starting a kernel with no way for it to know what the current memory map
is just plain scary.
Eric
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WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Allow arch override of non boot memory resource names
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 15:36:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873694h4g3.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200326180730.4754-3-james.morse@arm.com> (James Morse's message of "Thu, 26 Mar 2020 18:07:29 +0000")
James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> writes:
> Memory added to the system by hotplug has a 'System RAM' resource created
> for it. This is exposed to user-space via /proc/iomem.
>
> This poses problems for kexec on arm64. If kexec decides to place the
> kernel in one of these newly onlined regions, the new kernel will find
> itself booting from a region not described as memory in the firmware
> tables.
>
> Arm64 doesn't have a structure like the e820 memory map that can be
> re-written when memory is brought online. Instead arm64 uses the UEFI
> memory map, or the memory node from the DT, sometimes both. We never
> rewrite these.
>
> Allow an architecture to specify a different name for these hotplug
> regions.
Gah. No.
Please find a way to pass the current memory map to the loaded kexec'd
kernel.
Starting a kernel with no way for it to know what the current memory map
is just plain scary.
Eric
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2020-03-26 18:07 [PATCH 0/3] kexec/memory_hotplug: Prevent removal and accidental use James Morse
2020-03-26 18:07 ` James Morse
2020-03-26 18:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] kexec: Prevent removal of memory in use by a loaded kexec image James Morse
2020-03-26 18:07 ` James Morse
2020-03-27 0:43 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-03-27 0:43 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-03-27 2:54 ` Baoquan He
2020-03-27 2:54 ` Baoquan He
2020-03-27 15:46 ` James Morse
2020-03-27 15:46 ` James Morse
2020-03-27 2:34 ` Baoquan He
2020-03-27 2:34 ` Baoquan He
2020-03-27 9:30 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-27 9:30 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-27 16:56 ` James Morse
2020-03-27 16:56 ` James Morse
2020-03-27 17:06 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-27 17:06 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-27 18:07 ` James Morse
2020-03-27 18:07 ` James Morse
2020-03-27 18:52 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-27 18:52 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-30 13:00 ` James Morse
2020-03-30 13:00 ` James Morse
2020-03-30 13:13 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-30 13:13 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-30 17:17 ` James Morse
2020-03-30 17:17 ` James Morse
2020-03-30 18:14 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-30 18:14 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-10 19:10 ` Andrew Morton
2020-04-10 19:10 ` Andrew Morton
2020-04-10 19:10 ` Andrew Morton
2020-04-11 3:44 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-11 3:44 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-11 3:44 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-11 9:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-04-11 9:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-04-11 9:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-04-11 9:58 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-11 9:58 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-11 9:58 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-12 5:35 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-12 5:35 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-12 5:35 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-12 8:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-04-12 8:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-04-12 8:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-04-12 19:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-12 19:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-12 19:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-12 20:37 ` Bhupesh SHARMA
2020-04-12 20:37 ` Bhupesh SHARMA
2020-04-12 20:37 ` Bhupesh SHARMA
2020-04-13 2:37 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-13 2:37 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-13 2:37 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-13 13:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-13 13:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-13 13:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-13 23:01 ` Andrew Morton
2020-04-13 23:01 ` Andrew Morton
2020-04-13 23:01 ` Andrew Morton
2020-04-14 6:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-14 6:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-14 6:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-14 6:40 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-14 6:40 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-14 6:40 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-14 6:51 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-14 6:51 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-14 6:51 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-14 8:00 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-14 8:00 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-14 8:00 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-14 9:22 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-14 9:22 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-14 9:22 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-14 9:22 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-14 9:37 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-14 9:37 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-14 9:37 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-14 9:37 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-14 14:39 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-14 14:39 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-14 14:39 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-14 14:39 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-14 14:49 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-14 14:49 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-14 14:49 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-14 14:49 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-15 2:35 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-15 2:35 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-15 2:35 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-15 2:35 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-16 13:31 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-16 13:31 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-16 13:31 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-16 13:31 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-16 14:02 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-16 14:02 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-16 14:02 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-16 14:02 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-16 14:09 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-16 14:09 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-16 14:09 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-16 14:09 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-16 14:36 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-16 14:36 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-16 14:36 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-16 14:36 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-16 14:47 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-16 14:47 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-16 14:47 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-16 14:47 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-21 13:29 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-21 13:29 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-21 13:29 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-21 13:29 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-21 13:57 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-21 13:57 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-21 13:57 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-21 13:57 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-21 13:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-21 13:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-21 13:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-21 13:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-21 14:30 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-21 14:30 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-21 14:30 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-21 14:30 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-22 9:17 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-22 9:17 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-22 9:17 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-22 9:17 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-22 9:24 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-22 9:24 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-22 9:24 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-22 9:24 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-22 9:57 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-22 9:57 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-22 9:57 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-22 9:57 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-22 10:05 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-22 10:05 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-22 10:05 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-22 10:05 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-22 10:36 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-22 10:36 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-22 10:36 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-22 10:36 ` Baoquan He
2020-04-14 9:16 ` Dave Young
2020-04-14 9:16 ` Dave Young
2020-04-14 9:16 ` Dave Young
2020-04-14 9:38 ` Dave Young
2020-04-14 9:38 ` Dave Young
2020-04-14 9:38 ` Dave Young
2020-04-14 7:05 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-14 7:05 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-14 7:05 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-14 16:55 ` James Morse
2020-04-14 16:55 ` James Morse
2020-04-14 16:55 ` James Morse
2020-04-14 17:41 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-14 17:41 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-14 17:41 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-15 20:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-15 20:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-15 20:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-22 12:28 ` James Morse
2020-04-22 12:28 ` James Morse
2020-04-22 12:28 ` James Morse
2020-04-22 15:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-22 15:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-22 15:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-22 16:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-22 16:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-22 16:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-23 16:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-23 16:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-23 16:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-24 7:39 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-24 7:39 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-24 7:39 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-24 7:41 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-24 7:41 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-24 7:41 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-05-01 16:55 ` James Morse
2020-05-01 16:55 ` James Morse
2020-05-01 16:55 ` James Morse
2020-03-26 18:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Allow arch override of non boot memory resource names James Morse
2020-03-26 18:07 ` James Morse
2020-03-27 9:59 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-27 9:59 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-27 15:39 ` James Morse
2020-03-27 15:39 ` James Morse
2020-03-30 13:23 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-30 13:23 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-30 17:17 ` James Morse
2020-03-30 17:17 ` James Morse
2020-04-02 5:49 ` Dave Young
2020-04-02 5:49 ` Dave Young
2020-04-02 5:49 ` Dave Young
2020-04-02 6:12 ` piliu
2020-04-02 6:12 ` piliu
2020-04-02 6:12 ` piliu
2020-04-14 17:21 ` James Morse
2020-04-14 17:21 ` James Morse
2020-04-14 17:21 ` James Morse
2020-04-15 20:36 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2020-04-15 20:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-15 20:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-22 12:14 ` James Morse
2020-04-22 12:14 ` James Morse
2020-04-22 12:14 ` James Morse
2020-05-09 0:45 ` Andrew Morton
2020-05-09 0:45 ` Andrew Morton
2020-05-09 0:45 ` Andrew Morton
2020-05-11 8:35 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-05-11 8:35 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-05-11 8:35 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-26 18:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] arm64: memory: Give hotplug memory a different resource name James Morse
2020-03-26 18:07 ` James Morse
2020-03-30 19:01 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-30 19:01 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-15 20:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-15 20:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-15 20:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-22 12:14 ` James Morse
2020-04-22 12:14 ` James Morse
2020-04-22 12:14 ` James Morse
2020-03-27 2:11 ` [PATCH 0/3] kexec/memory_hotplug: Prevent removal and accidental use Baoquan He
2020-03-27 2:11 ` Baoquan He
2020-03-27 15:40 ` James Morse
2020-03-27 15:40 ` James Morse
2020-03-27 9:27 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-27 9:27 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-27 15:42 ` James Morse
2020-03-27 15:42 ` James Morse
2020-03-30 13:18 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-30 13:18 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-03-30 13:55 ` Baoquan He
2020-03-30 13:55 ` Baoquan He
2020-03-30 17:17 ` James Morse
2020-03-30 17:17 ` James Morse
2020-03-31 3:46 ` Dave Young
2020-03-31 3:46 ` Dave Young
2020-04-14 17:31 ` James Morse
2020-04-14 17:31 ` James Morse
2020-04-14 17:31 ` James Morse
2020-03-31 3:38 ` Dave Young
2020-03-31 3:38 ` Dave Young
2020-04-15 20:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-15 20:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-15 20:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-22 12:14 ` James Morse
2020-04-22 12:14 ` James Morse
2020-04-22 12:14 ` James Morse
2020-04-22 13:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-22 13:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-22 13:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-22 15:40 ` James Morse
2020-04-22 15:40 ` James Morse
2020-04-22 15:40 ` James Morse
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