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Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 17:07:45 +0000
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
"Wang, Yalin" <Yalin.Wang@...ymobile.com>,
"'linux-mm@...ck.org'" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
"'linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"'linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org'"
<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
"'linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org'" <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
Peter Maydell <Peter.Maydell@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] arm:extend the reserved mrmory for initrd to be page
aligned
On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 12:05:06PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 12:03:05PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:33:25PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 07:07:20PM +0800, Wang, Yalin wrote:
> > > > @@ -636,6 +646,11 @@ static int keep_initrd;
> > > > void free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> > > > {
> > > > if (!keep_initrd) {
> > > > + if (start == initrd_start)
> > > > + start = round_down(start, PAGE_SIZE);
> > > > + if (end == initrd_end)
> > > > + end = round_up(end, PAGE_SIZE);
> > > > +
> > > > poison_init_mem((void *)start, PAGE_ALIGN(end) - start);
> > > > free_reserved_area((void *)start, (void *)end, -1, "initrd");
> > > > }
> > >
> > > is the only bit of code you likely need to achieve your goal.
> > >
> > > Thinking about this, I think that you are quite right to align these.
> > > The memory around the initrd is defined to be system memory, and we
> > > already free the pages around it, so it *is* wrong not to free the
> > > partial initrd pages.
> >
> > Actually, I think we have a problem, at least on arm64 (raised by Peter
> > Maydell). There is no guarantee that the page around start/end of initrd
> > is free, it may contain the dtb for example. This is even more obvious
> > when we have a 64KB page kernel (the boot loader doesn't know the page
> > size that the kernel is going to use).
> >
> > The bug was there before as we had poison_init_mem() already (not it
> > disappeared since free_reserved_area does the poisoning).
> >
> > So as a quick fix I think we need the rounding the other way (and in the
> > general case we probably lose a page at the end of initrd):
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> > index 494297c698ca..39fd080683e7 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> > @@ -335,9 +335,9 @@ void free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> > {
> > if (!keep_initrd) {
> > if (start == initrd_start)
> > - start = round_down(start, PAGE_SIZE);
> > + start = round_up(start, PAGE_SIZE);
> > if (end == initrd_end)
> > - end = round_up(end, PAGE_SIZE);
> > + end = round_down(end, PAGE_SIZE);
> >
> > free_reserved_area((void *)start, (void *)end, 0, "initrd");
> > }
> >
> > A better fix would be to check what else is around the start/end of
> > initrd.
>
> Care to submit this as a proper patch? We should at least fix Peter's issue
> before doing things like extending headers, which won't work for older
> kernels anyway.
Quick fix is the revert of the whole patch, together with removing
PAGE_ALIGN(end) in poison_init_mem() on arm32. If Russell is ok with
this patch, we can take it via the arm64 tree, otherwise I'll send you a
partial revert only for the arm64 part.
-------------8<-----------------------
>From 8e317c6be00abe280de4dcdd598d2e92009174b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 16:41:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "ARM: 8167/1: extend the reserved memory for initrd to
be page aligned"
This reverts commit 421520ba98290a73b35b7644e877a48f18e06004. There is
no guarantee that the boot-loader places other images like dtb in a
different page than initrd start/end. When this happens, such pages must
not be freed. The free_reserved_area() already takes care of rounding up
"start" and rounding down "end" to avoid freeing partially used pages.
In addition to the revert, this patch also removes the arm32
PAGE_ALIGN(end) when calculating the size of the memory to be poisoned.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Reported-by: Peter Maydell <Peter.Maydell@....com>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 3.17+
---
arch/arm/mm/init.c | 7 +------
arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 8 +-------
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
index 92bba32d9230..108d6949c727 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
@@ -636,12 +636,7 @@ static int keep_initrd;
void free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
if (!keep_initrd) {
- if (start == initrd_start)
- start = round_down(start, PAGE_SIZE);
- if (end == initrd_end)
- end = round_up(end, PAGE_SIZE);
-
- poison_init_mem((void *)start, PAGE_ALIGN(end) - start);
+ poison_init_mem((void *)start, end - start);
free_reserved_area((void *)start, (void *)end, -1, "initrd");
}
}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
index 494297c698ca..fff81f02251c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -333,14 +333,8 @@ static int keep_initrd;
void free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
- if (!keep_initrd) {
- if (start == initrd_start)
- start = round_down(start, PAGE_SIZE);
- if (end == initrd_end)
- end = round_up(end, PAGE_SIZE);
-
+ if (!keep_initrd)
free_reserved_area((void *)start, (void *)end, 0, "initrd");
- }
}
static int __init keepinitrd_setup(char *__unused)
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