linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 04/17] kexec: Add KHO parsing support

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Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 19:33:01 -0800
From: Stanislav Kinsburskii <skinsburskii@...ux.microsoft.com>
To: Alexander Graf <graf@...zon.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
	Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@....com>,
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	Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@...cle.com>,
	Usama Arif <usama.arif@...edance.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/17] kexec: Add KHO parsing support

On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 07:35:54PM +0000, Alexander Graf wrote:
> +/**
> + * kho_reserve_previous_mem - Adds all memory reservations into memblocks
> + * and moves us out of the scratch only phase. Must be called after page tables
> + * are initialized and memblock_allow_resize().
> + */
> +void __init kho_reserve_previous_mem(void)
> +{
> +	void *mem_virt = __va(mem_phys);
> +	int off, err;
> +
> +	if (!handover_phys || !mem_phys)
> +		return;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * We reached here because we are running inside a working linear map
> +	 * that allows us to resize memblocks dynamically. Use the chance and
> +	 * populate the global fdt pointer
> +	 */
> +	fdt = __va(handover_phys);
> +
> +	off = fdt_path_offset(fdt, "/");
> +	if (off < 0) {
> +		fdt = NULL;
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
> +	err = fdt_node_check_compatible(fdt, off, "kho-v1");
> +	if (err) {
> +		pr_warn("KHO has invalid compatible, disabling.");

It looks like KHO preserved regions won't be reserved in this case.
Should KHO DT state be destroyed here to prevent KHO memory regions
reuse upon rollback?

> +
> +void __init kho_populate(phys_addr_t handover_dt_phys, phys_addr_t scratch_phys,
> +			 u64 scratch_len, phys_addr_t mem_cache_phys,
> +			 u64 mem_cache_len)
> +{
> +	void *handover_dt;
> +
> +	/* Determine the real size of the DT */
> +	handover_dt = early_memremap(handover_dt_phys, sizeof(struct fdt_header));
> +	if (!handover_dt) {
> +		pr_warn("setup: failed to memremap kexec FDT (0x%llx)\n", handover_dt_phys);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (fdt_check_header(handover_dt)) {
> +		pr_warn("setup: kexec handover FDT is invalid (0x%llx)\n", handover_dt_phys);
> +		early_memunmap(handover_dt, PAGE_SIZE);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
> +	handover_len = fdt_totalsize(handover_dt);
> +	handover_phys = handover_dt_phys;
> +
> +	/* Reserve the DT so we can still access it in late boot */
> +	memblock_reserve(handover_phys, handover_len);
> +
> +	/* Reserve the mem cache so we can still access it later */
> +	memblock_reserve(mem_cache_phys, mem_cache_len);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * We pass a safe contiguous block of memory to use for early boot purporses from
> +	 * the previous kernel so that we can resize the memblock array as needed.
> +	 */
> +	memblock_add(scratch_phys, scratch_len);
> +
> +	if (WARN_ON(memblock_mark_scratch(scratch_phys, scratch_len))) {
> +		pr_err("Kexec failed to mark the scratch region. Disabling KHO.");
> +		handover_len = 0;
> +		handover_phys = 0;

Same question here: doesn't all the KHO state gets invalid in case of any
restoration error?