Re: [PATCH v2] x86/efi: unconditionally hold the whole low-1MB memory regions

[Mike Rapoport]

On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 07:00:59PM +0800, lijiang wrote:
> Thank you for the information, Boris and Mike.
> 
> BTW: I just noticed that Mike's patch is incorrect, maybe it's a typo:
> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> index 7850111008a8b..e262ca858787f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> @@ -450,6 +450,18 @@ void __init efi_free_boot_services(void)
> size -= rm_size;
> }
> + /*
> + * Don't free memory under 1M for two reasons:
> + * - BIOS might clobber it
> + * - Crash kernel needs it to be reserved
> + */
> + if (start + size < SZ_1M)
> + continue;
> + if (start < SZ_1M) {
> + size -= (start - SZ_1M);
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> It looks like: size -= (SZ_1M - start);

Right, thanks!

> + start = SZ_1M;
> + }
> +
> memblock_free_late(start, size);
> }
> 
> Mike's patch link:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/linux.git/commit/?h=x86/
> reservelow&id=479fb34676ac448529b605854cf48c007e796ccd
 
-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.