[PATCH 2/2] efi: Don't add memblocks for unusable memory

From: Andrew Bresticker
Date: Fri Feb 02 2024 - 11:35:47 EST


Adding memblocks (even if nomap) for such regions unnecessarily consumes
resources by creating struct pages for memory that may never be used or,
in the case of soft-reserved regions, prevents the memory from later
being hotplugged in by dax_kmem. This is also consistent with how x86
handles unusable memory found in the EFI memory map.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/firmware/efi/efi-init.c | 12 +-----------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-init.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-init.c
index d4987d013080..f05bacac89b7 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-init.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-init.c
@@ -24,13 +24,6 @@

unsigned long __initdata screen_info_table = EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR;

-static int __init is_memory(efi_memory_desc_t *md)
-{
- if (md->attribute & (EFI_MEMORY_WB|EFI_MEMORY_WT|EFI_MEMORY_WC))
- return 1;
- return 0;
-}
-
/*
* Translate a EFI virtual address into a physical address: this is necessary,
* as some data members of the EFI system table are virtually remapped after
@@ -195,12 +188,9 @@ static __init void reserve_regions(void)
memrange_efi_to_native(&paddr, &npages);
size = npages << PAGE_SHIFT;

- if (is_memory(md)) {
+ if (is_usable_memory(md)) {
early_init_dt_add_memory_arch(paddr, size);

- if (!is_usable_memory(md))
- memblock_mark_nomap(paddr, size);
-
/* keep ACPI reclaim memory intact for kexec etc. */
if (md->type == EFI_ACPI_RECLAIM_MEMORY)
memblock_reserve(paddr, size);
--
2.34.1