Re: [PATCH v5 2/9] mm/memory-failure: efi: add the LINUX_EFI_POISONED_MEMORY configuration table
From: sashiko-bot
Date: Tue Sep 15 2026 - 09:58:52 EST
> Hardware-poisoned page frames are tracked only in the running kernel's
> data structures, so a kexec loses them and the next kernel doesn't have
> this information, thus, tripping into them again.
>
> Add an EFI configuration table to carry that information across kexec.
>
> It is a bitmap with one bit per EFI_POISON_UNIT_SIZE (2MiB) of physical
> memory starting at phys_base, modeled on the LINUX_EFI_UNACCEPTED_MEMORY
> table, and it rides the EFI system table to every kernel in the chain.
> Basing the bitmap keeps a machine whose RAM starts high from paying for
> the hole below it.
>
> List the table in the x86 efi_tables[] too, so an SME host maps it
> unencrypted like every other EFI table.
>
> [ ... ]
>
> This is a similar approach as used as unaccepted memory.
>
> Suggested-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great!
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