[PATCH v22 10/10] firmware: arm_rmm: hotplug: Skip memory added to ZONE_MOVABLE

From: Suzuki K Poulose

Date: Fri Oct 02 2026 - 02:21:28 EST


If the hotadded memory is in ZONE_MOVABLE, we could allow that to proceed
without the RMM having fine grained tracking, as we won't allocate pages
from there for guest-memfd or kernel allocation

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
---
Changes since v20:
- Use is_zone_movable_page() and only check the start_pfn
---
drivers/firmware/arm_rmm/rmi.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_rmm/rmi.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_rmm/rmi.c
index c064072690d46..c3c3cf6dad59a 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_rmm/rmi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_rmm/rmi.c
@@ -1050,6 +1050,17 @@ static int rmi_memory_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
start = PFN_PHYS(arg->start_pfn);
end = PFN_PHYS(arg->start_pfn + arg->nr_pages);

+ /*
+ * If the hotplugged memory region is in ZONE_MOVABLE, neither the
+ * guest-memfd nor the kernel allocations can come from there. So we are
+ * fine to skip this.
+ * For boot time memory, we don't allow this discount, as the
+ * decision to move boot memory pages to ZONE_MOVABLE is purely
+ * a kernel choice and the firmware must have decided what it covers.
+ */
+ if (is_zone_movable_page(pfn_to_page(arg->start_pfn)))
+ return NOTIFY_DONE;
+
ret = rmi_prepare_memory(start, end);

return notifier_from_errno(ret);
--
2.43.0