linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/setup: call early_reserve

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Date:   Tue, 14 Sep 2021 11:41:08 +0200
From:   Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:     xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Marek Marczykowski-Górecki 
        <marmarek@...isiblethingslab.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/setup: call early_reserve_memory() earlier

Commit a799c2bd29d19c565 ("x86/setup: Consolidate early memory
reservations") introduced early_reserve_memory() to do all needed
initial memblock_reserve() calls in one function. Unfortunately the
call of early_reserve_memory() is done too late for Xen dom0, as in
some cases a Xen hook called by e820__memory_setup() will need those
memory reservations to have happened already.

Move the call of early_reserve_memory() to the beginning of
setup_arch() in order to avoid such problems.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: a799c2bd29d19c565 ("x86/setup: Consolidate early memory reservations")
Reported-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@...isiblethingslab.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 79f164141116..f369c51ec580 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -757,6 +757,18 @@ dump_kernel_offset(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long v, void *p)
 
 void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 {
+	/*
+	 * Do some memory reservations *before* memory is added to
+	 * memblock, so memblock allocations won't overwrite it.
+	 * Do it after early param, so we could get (unlikely) panic from
+	 * serial.
+	 *
+	 * After this point everything still needed from the boot loader or
+	 * firmware or kernel text should be early reserved or marked not
+	 * RAM in e820. All other memory is free game.
+	 */
+	early_reserve_memory();
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 	memcpy(&boot_cpu_data, &new_cpu_data, sizeof(new_cpu_data));
 
@@ -876,18 +888,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 
 	parse_early_param();
 
-	/*
-	 * Do some memory reservations *before* memory is added to
-	 * memblock, so memblock allocations won't overwrite it.
-	 * Do it after early param, so we could get (unlikely) panic from
-	 * serial.
-	 *
-	 * After this point everything still needed from the boot loader or
-	 * firmware or kernel text should be early reserved or marked not
-	 * RAM in e820. All other memory is free game.
-	 */
-	early_reserve_memory();
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
 	/*
 	 * Memory used by the kernel cannot be hot-removed because Linux
-- 
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