From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>, Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/setup: consolidate early memory reservations
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:50:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210125145041.GD23070@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210115083255.12744-2-rppt@kernel.org>
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 10:32:54AM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
>
> The early reservations of memory areas used by the firmware, bootloader,
> kernel text and data are spread over setup_arch(). Moreover, some of them
> happen *after* memblock allocations, e.g trim_platform_memory_ranges() and
> trim_low_memory_range() are called after reserve_real_mode() that allocates
> memory.
>
> We did not observe corruption of these memory regions because memblock
Make that "We" impersonal, passive voice pls.
> always allocates memory either from the end of memory (in top-down mode) or
> above the kernel image (in bottom-up mode). However, the bottom up mode is
> going to be updated to span the entire memory [1] to avoid limitations
> caused by KASLR.
>
> Consolidate early memory reservations in a dedicated function to improve
> robustness against future changes. Having the early reservations in one
> place also makes it clearer what memory must be reserved before we allow
> memblock allocations.
Would it make sense to have a check with a WARN or so to catch early
reservations which get added after memblock allocations have been
allowed? To catch people who don't pay attention...
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-25 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-15 8:32 [PATCH 0/2] x86/setup: consolidate early memory reservations Mike Rapoport
2021-01-15 8:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Mike Rapoport
2021-01-15 10:10 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-25 14:50 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2021-01-25 15:31 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-01-25 16:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-25 14:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-25 15:33 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-01-15 8:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/setup: merge several reservations of start of the memory Mike Rapoport
2021-01-15 10:09 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-25 14:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-15 11:42 ` [PATCH 0/2] x86/setup: consolidate early memory reservations Baoquan He
2021-01-15 11:56 ` Baoquan He
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