Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] kernel/resource: make walk_mem_res() find all busy IORESOURCE_MEM resources

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Mar 23 2021 - 07:09:32 EST


On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 05:01:59PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> It used to be true that we can have system RAM only on the first level
> in the resourc tree. However, this is no longer holds for driver-managed
> system RAM (i.e., dax/kmem and virtio-mem).
>
> The function walk_mem_res() only consideres the first level and is
> used in arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:__ioremap_check_mem() only. We currently
> fail to identify System RAM added by dax/kmem and virtio-mem as
> "IORES_MAP_SYSTEM_RAM", for example, allowing for remapping of such
> "normal RAM" in __ioremap_caller().

Here I dunno, but consider to add Fixes tag if it fixes known bad behaviour.

> Let's find all busy IORESOURCE_MEM resources, making the function
> behave similar to walk_system_ram_res().
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/resource.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
> index 4efd6e912279..16e0c7e8ed24 100644
> --- a/kernel/resource.c
> +++ b/kernel/resource.c
> @@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ int walk_mem_res(u64 start, u64 end, void *arg,
> {
> unsigned long flags = IORESOURCE_MEM | IORESOURCE_BUSY;
>
> - return __walk_iomem_res_desc(start, end, flags, IORES_DESC_NONE, true,
> + return __walk_iomem_res_desc(start, end, flags, IORES_DESC_NONE, false,
> arg, func);
> }
>
> --
> 2.29.2
>

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko