free_reserved_area() is related to memblock as it frees reserved memory
back to the buddy allocator, similar to what memblock_free_late() does.
Move free_reserved_area() to mm/memblock.c to prepare for further
consolidation of the functions that free reserved memory.
No functional changes.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260323074836.3653702-5-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
reserve_bootmem_region() is only called from
memmap_init_reserved_pages() and it was in mm/mm_init.c because of its
dependecies on static init_deferred_page().
Since init_deferred_page() is not static anymore, move
reserve_bootmem_region(), rename it to memmap_init_reserved_range() and
make it static.
Update the comment describing it to better reflect what the function
does and drop bogus comment about reserved pages in free_bootmem_page().
Update memblock test stubs to reflect the core changes.
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260323072042.3651061-1-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
When using the "reserve_mem" parameter, users aim at having an
area that (hopefully) persists across boots, so pstore infrastructure
(like ramoops module) can make use of that to save oops/ftrace logs,
for example.
There is no easy way to determine if this kernel parameter is properly
set though; the kernel doesn't show information about this memory in
memblock debugfs, neither in /proc/iomem nor dmesg. This is a relevant
information for tools like kdumpst[0], to determine if it's reliable
to use the reserved area as ramoops persistent storage; checking only
/proc/cmdline is not sufficient as it doesn't tell if the reservation
effectively succeeded or not.
Add here a new file under memblock debugfs showing properly set memory
reservations, with name and size as passed to "reserve_mem". Notice that
if no "reserve_mem=" is passed on command-line or if the reservation
attempts fail, the file is not created.
[0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdumpst
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324012839.1991765-2-gpiccoli@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
memblock_free_pages() currently takes both a struct page * and the
corresponding PFN. The page pointer is always derived from the PFN at
call sites (pfn_to_page(pfn)), making the parameter redundant and also
allowing accidental mismatches between the two arguments.
Simplify the interface by removing the struct page * argument and
deriving the page locally from the PFN, after the deferred struct page
initialization check. This keeps the behavior unchanged while making
the helper harder to misuse.
Signed-off-by: Shengming Hu <hu.shengming@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_F741CE6ECC49EE099736685E60C0DBD4A209@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Patch series "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)", v8.
Kexec today considers itself purely a boot loader: When we enter the new
kernel, any state the previous kernel left behind is irrelevant and the
new kernel reinitializes the system.
However, there are use cases where this mode of operation is not what we
actually want. In virtualization hosts for example, we want to use kexec
to update the host kernel while virtual machine memory stays untouched.
When we add device assignment to the mix, we also need to ensure that
IOMMU and VFIO states are untouched. If we add PCIe peer to peer DMA, we
need to do the same for the PCI subsystem. If we want to kexec while an
SEV-SNP enabled virtual machine is running, we need to preserve the VM
context pages and physical memory. See "pkernfs: Persisting guest memory
and kernel/device state safely across kexec" Linux Plumbers Conference
2023 presentation for details:
https://lpc.events/event/17/contributions/1485/
To start us on the journey to support all the use cases above, this patch
implements basic infrastructure to allow hand over of kernel state across
kexec (Kexec HandOver, aka KHO). As a really simple example target, we
use memblock's reserve_mem.
With this patchset applied, memory that was reserved using "reserve_mem"
command line options remains intact after kexec and it is guaranteed to
reside at the same physical address.
== Alternatives ==
There are alternative approaches to (parts of) the problems above:
* Memory Pools [1] - preallocated persistent memory region + allocator
* PRMEM [2] - resizable persistent memory regions with fixed metadata
pointer on the kernel command line + allocator
* Pkernfs [3] - preallocated file system for in-kernel data with fixed
address location on the kernel command line
* PKRAM [4] - handover of user space pages using a fixed metadata page
specified via command line
All of the approaches above fundamentally have the same problem: They
require the administrator to explicitly carve out a physical memory
location because they have no mechanism outside of the kernel command line
to pass data (including memory reservations) between kexec'ing kernels.
KHO provides that base foundation. We will determine later whether we
still need any of the approaches above for fast bulk memory handover of
for example IOMMU page tables. But IMHO they would all be users of KHO,
with KHO providing the foundational primitive to pass metadata and bulk
memory reservations as well as provide easy versioning for data.
== Overview ==
We introduce a metadata file that the kernels pass between each other.
How they pass it is architecture specific. The file's format is a
Flattened Device Tree (fdt) which has a generator and parser already
included in Linux. KHO is enabled in the kernel command line by `kho=on`.
When the root user enables KHO through
/sys/kernel/debug/kho/out/finalize, the kernel invokes callbacks to every
KHO users to register preserved memory regions, which contain drivers'
states.
When the actual kexec happens, the fdt is part of the image set that we
boot into. In addition, we keep "scratch regions" available for kexec:
physically contiguous memory regions that are guaranteed to not have any
memory that KHO would preserve. The new kernel bootstraps itself using
the scratch regions and sets all handed over memory as in use. When
drivers initialize that support KHO, they introspect the fdt, restore
preserved memory regions, and retrieve their states stored in the
preserved memory.
== Limitations ==
Currently KHO is only implemented for file based kexec. The kernel
interfaces in the patch set are already in place to support user space
kexec as well, but it is still not implemented it yet inside kexec tools.
== How to Use ==
To use the code, please boot the kernel with the "kho=on" command line
parameter. KHO will automatically create scratch regions. If you want to
set the scratch size explicitly you can use "kho_scratch=" command line
parameter. For instance, "kho_scratch=16M,512M,256M" will reserve a 16
MiB low memory scratch area, a 512 MiB global scratch region, and 256 MiB
per NUMA node scratch regions on boot.
Make sure to have a reserved memory range requested with reserv_mem
command line option, for example, "reserve_mem=64m:4k:n1".
Then before you invoke file based "kexec -l", finalize KHO FDT:
# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/kho/out/finalize
You can preview the generated FDT using `dtc`,
# dtc /sys/kernel/debug/kho/out/fdt
# dtc /sys/kernel/debug/kho/out/sub_fdts/memblock
`dtc` is available on ubuntu by `sudo apt-get install device-tree-compiler`.
Now kexec into the new kernel,
# kexec -l Image --initrd=initrd -s
# kexec -e
(The order of KHO finalization and "kexec -l" does not matter.)
The new kernel will boot up and contain the previous kernel's reserve_mem
contents at the same physical address as the first kernel.
You can also review the FDT passed from the old kernel,
# dtc /sys/kernel/debug/kho/in/fdt
# dtc /sys/kernel/debug/kho/in/sub_fdts/memblock
This patch (of 17):
To denote areas that were reserved for kernel use either directly with
memblock_reserve_kern() or via memblock allocations.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250424083258.2228122-1-changyuanl@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aAeaJ2iqkrv_ffhT@kernel.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/35c58191-f774-40cf-8d66-d1e2aaf11a62@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250424093302.3894961-1-arnd@kernel.org/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250509074635.3187114-1-changyuanl@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250509074635.3187114-2-changyuanl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>
Cc: Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Gowans <jgowans@amazon.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsburskii <skinsburskii@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pull memblock updates from Mike Rapoport:
- new memblock_estimated_nr_free_pages() helper to replace
totalram_pages() which is less accurate when
CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is set
- fixes for memblock tests
* tag 'memblock-v6.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/memblock:
s390/mm: get estimated free pages by memblock api
kernel/fork.c: get estimated free pages by memblock api
mm/memblock: introduce a new helper memblock_estimated_nr_free_pages()
memblock test: fix implicit declaration of function 'strscpy'
memblock test: fix implicit declaration of function 'isspace'
memblock test: fix implicit declaration of function 'memparse'
memblock test: add the definition of __setup()
memblock test: fix implicit declaration of function 'virt_to_phys'
tools/testing: abstract two init.h into common include directory
memblock tests: include export.h in linkage.h as kernel dose
memblock tests: include memory_hotplug.h in mmzone.h as kernel dose
The dummy entry is introduced in the initial implementation of lmb in
commit 7c8c6b9776 ("powerpc: Merge lmb.c and make MM initialization
use it.").
As the comment says the empty dummy entry is to simplify the code.
/* Create a dummy zero size LMB which will get coalesced away later.
* This simplifies the lmb_add() code below...
*/
While current code is reimplemented by Tejun in commit 784656f9c6
("memblock: Reimplement memblock_add_region()"). This empty dummy entry
seems not benefit the code any more.
Let's remove it.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
CC: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240405015821.13411-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Building memblock tests produces the following warning:
cc -I. -I../../include -Wall -O2 -fsanitize=address -fsanitize=undefined -D CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT -c -o main.o main.c
In file included from tests/common.h:9,
from tests/basic_api.h:5,
from main.c:2:
./linux/memblock.h:601:50: warning: ‘struct seq_file’ declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration
601 | static inline void memtest_report_meminfo(struct seq_file *m) { }
| ^~~~~~~~
Add declaration of 'struct seq_file' to tools/include/linux/seq_file.h
to fix it.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
This patch fix the follow errors.
commit 61167ad5fe ("mm: pass nid to reserve_bootmem_region()") pass nid
parameter to reserve_bootmem_region(),
$ make -C tools/testing/memblock/
...
memblock.c: In function ‘memmap_init_reserved_pages’:
memblock.c:2111:25: error: too many arguments to function ‘reserve_bootmem_region’
2111 | reserve_bootmem_region(start, end, nid);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../../include/linux/mm.h:32:6: note: declared here
32 | void reserve_bootmem_region(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
memblock.c:2122:17: error: too many arguments to function ‘reserve_bootmem_region’
2122 | reserve_bootmem_region(start, end, nid);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
commit dcdfdd40fa ("mm: Add support for unaccepted memory") call
accept_memory() in memblock.c
$ make -C tools/testing/memblock/
...
cc -fsanitize=address -fsanitize=undefined main.o memblock.o \
lib/slab.o mmzone.o slab.o tests/alloc_nid_api.o \
tests/alloc_helpers_api.o tests/alloc_api.o tests/basic_api.o \
tests/common.o tests/alloc_exact_nid_api.o -o main
/usr/bin/ld: memblock.o: in function `memblock_alloc_range_nid':
memblock.c:(.text+0x7ae4): undefined reference to `accept_memory'
Signed-off-by: Rong Tao <rongtao@cestc.cn>
Fixes: dcdfdd40fa ("mm: Add support for unaccepted memory")
Fixes: 61167ad5fe ("mm: pass nid to reserve_bootmem_region()")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_6F19BC082167F15DF2A8D8BEFE8EF220F60A@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
This test is aimed at verifying the memblock_alloc_node() to work as
expected, so setting the correct NUMA node for the new allocated
region. The memblock_alloc_node() is called directly without using any
stub. The core check is between the requested NUMA node and the `nid`
field inside the memblock_region structure. These two are supposed to
be equal for the test to succeed.
Signed-off-by: Claudio Migliorelli <claudio.migliorelli@mail.polimi.it>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ea5e938e-6b74-b188-af59-4b94b18bc0@mail.polimi.it
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
This reverts commit 115d9d77bb.
The pages being freed by memblock_free_late() have already been
initialized, but if they are in the deferred init range,
__free_one_page() might access nearby uninitialized pages when trying to
coalesce buddies. This can, for example, trigger this BUG:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffe964c02580c8
RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0x3f/0x70
<TASK>
__free_one_page+0x139/0x410
__free_pages_ok+0x21d/0x450
memblock_free_late+0x8c/0xb9
efi_free_boot_services+0x16b/0x25c
efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x403/0x446
start_kernel+0x678/0x714
secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xd2/0xdb
</TASK>
A proper fix will be more involved so revert this change for the time
being.
Fixes: 115d9d77bb ("mm: Always release pages to the buddy allocator in memblock_free_late().")
Signed-off-by: Aaron Thompson <dev@aaront.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230207082151.1303-1-dev@aaront.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
If CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is enabled, memblock_free_pages()
only releases pages to the buddy allocator if they are not in the
deferred range. This is correct for free pages (as defined by
for_each_free_mem_pfn_range_in_zone()) because free pages in the
deferred range will be initialized and released as part of the deferred
init process. memblock_free_pages() is called by memblock_free_late(),
which is used to free reserved ranges after memblock_free_all() has
run. All pages in reserved ranges have been initialized at that point,
and accordingly, those pages are not touched by the deferred init
process. This means that currently, if the pages that
memblock_free_late() intends to release are in the deferred range, they
will never be released to the buddy allocator. They will forever be
reserved.
In addition, memblock_free_pages() calls kmsan_memblock_free_pages(),
which is also correct for free pages but is not correct for reserved
pages. KMSAN metadata for reserved pages is initialized by
kmsan_init_shadow(), which runs shortly before memblock_free_all().
For both of these reasons, memblock_free_pages() should only be called
for free pages, and memblock_free_late() should call __free_pages_core()
directly instead.
One case where this issue can occur in the wild is EFI boot on
x86_64. The x86 EFI code reserves all EFI boot services memory ranges
via memblock_reserve() and frees them later via memblock_free_late()
(efi_reserve_boot_services() and efi_free_boot_services(),
respectively). If any of those ranges happens to fall within the
deferred init range, the pages will not be released and that memory will
be unavailable.
For example, on an Amazon EC2 t3.micro VM (1 GB) booting via EFI:
v6.2-rc2:
# grep -E 'Node|spanned|present|managed' /proc/zoneinfo
Node 0, zone DMA
spanned 4095
present 3999
managed 3840
Node 0, zone DMA32
spanned 246652
present 245868
managed 178867
v6.2-rc2 + patch:
# grep -E 'Node|spanned|present|managed' /proc/zoneinfo
Node 0, zone DMA
spanned 4095
present 3999
managed 3840
Node 0, zone DMA32
spanned 246652
present 245868
managed 222816 # +43,949 pages
Fixes: 3a80a7fa79 ("mm: meminit: initialise a subset of struct pages if CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is set")
Signed-off-by: Aaron Thompson <dev@aaront.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/01010185892de53e-e379acfb-7044-4b24-b30a-e2657c1ba989-000000@us-west-2.amazonses.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
