There has been some confusion around what is necessary to prevent kexec overwriting important memory regions. memblock: reserve, or nomap? Only memblock nomap regions are reported via /proc/iomem, kexec's user-space doesn't know about memblock_reserve()d regions. Until commit f56ab9a5b73ca ("efi/arm: Don't mark ACPI reclaim memory as MEMBLOCK_NOMAP") the ACPI tables were nomap, now they are reserved and thus possible for kexec to overwrite with the new kernel or initrd. But this was always broken, as the UEFI memory map is also reserved and not marked as nomap. Exporting both nomap and reserved memblock types is a nuisance as they live in different memblock structures which we can't walk at the same time. Take a second walk over memblock.reserved and add new 'reserved' subnodes for the memblock_reserved() regions that aren't already described by the existing code. (e.g. Kernel Code) We use reserve_region_with_split() to find the gaps in existing named regions. This handles the gap between 'kernel code' and 'kernel data' which is memblock_reserve()d, but already partially described by request_standard_resources(). e.g.: | 80000000-dfffffff : System RAM | 80080000-80ffffff : Kernel code | 81000000-8158ffff : reserved | 81590000-8237efff : Kernel data | a0000000-dfffffff : Crash kernel | e00f0000-f949ffff : System RAM reserve_region_with_split needs kzalloc() which isn't available when request_standard_resources() is called, use an initcall. Reported-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> Reported-by: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@codeaurora.org> Suggested-by: Akashi Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Fixes: d28f6df1305a ("arm64/kexec: Add core kexec support") Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> CC: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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