[PATCH 1/2] kho: skip zero-sized lowmem and global bootmem areas
From: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
Date: Tue Nov 03 2026 - 07:20:34 EST
The lowmem and the global bootmem areas can have zero size, for example
when none or all of the memory is below ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT, or when
either of those areas is explicitly set to zero with kho_bootmem=.
For a zero-sized allocation memblock returns an address without reserving
anything, and that empty area is recorded in kho_bootmem. If there is no
memory below ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT, allocation of the empty lowmem area
fails and KHO gets disabled.
Extract a helper that checks for zero size and allocates memory from
memblock, and use it to skip empty areas the same way as empty per-node
areas are skipped.
Fixes: 3dc92c311498 ("kexec: add Kexec HandOver (KHO) generation helpers")
Reported-by: Chen Pei <cp0613@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261026131851.9942-1-cp0613@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
index 6f1f55fe31819..f268c57413a7e 100644
--- a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
+++ b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
@@ -820,6 +820,27 @@ bool kho_bootmem_overlap(phys_addr_t phys, size_t size)
return false;
}
+static int __init kho_reserve_bootmem_area(int *idx, phys_addr_t size,
+ phys_addr_t end, int nid)
+{
+ phys_addr_t addr;
+ int i = *idx;
+
+ if (!size)
+ return 0;
+
+ addr = memblock_alloc_range_nid(size, BOOTMEM_ALIGNMENT_BYTES, 0, end,
+ nid, true);
+ if (!addr)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ kho_bootmem[i].addr = addr;
+ kho_bootmem[i].size = size;
+ *idx = i + 1;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
/**
* kho_reserve_bootmem - Reserve a contiguous chunk of memory for kexec
*
@@ -832,7 +853,7 @@ bool kho_bootmem_overlap(phys_addr_t phys, size_t size)
static void __init kho_reserve_bootmem(void)
{
int nid, i = 0, max_nr_bootmem;
- phys_addr_t addr, size;
+ phys_addr_t size;
if (!kho_enable)
return;
@@ -852,56 +873,32 @@ static void __init kho_reserve_bootmem(void)
* reserve bootmem area in low memory for lowmem allocations in the
* next kernel
*/
- size = bootmem_size_lowmem;
- addr = memblock_phys_alloc_range(size, BOOTMEM_ALIGNMENT_BYTES, 0,
- ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT);
- if (!addr) {
+ if (kho_reserve_bootmem_area(&i, bootmem_size_lowmem,
+ ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT, NUMA_NO_NODE)) {
pr_err("Failed to reserve lowmem bootmem\n");
goto err_free_bootmem_desc;
}
- kho_bootmem[i].addr = addr;
- kho_bootmem[i].size = size;
- i++;
-
/* reserve large contiguous area for allocations without nid */
- size = bootmem_size_global;
- addr = memblock_phys_alloc(size, BOOTMEM_ALIGNMENT_BYTES);
- if (!addr) {
+ if (kho_reserve_bootmem_area(&i, bootmem_size_global,
+ MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE, NUMA_NO_NODE)) {
pr_err("Failed to reserve global bootmem\n");
goto err_free_bootmem_areas;
}
- kho_bootmem[i].addr = addr;
- kho_bootmem[i].size = size;
- i++;
-
/*
* Loop over nodes that have both memory and are online. Skip
* memoryless nodes, as we can not allocate bootmem areas there.
*/
for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY) {
- size = bootmem_size_node(nid);
- if (!size)
- continue;
-
- addr = memblock_alloc_range_nid(size, BOOTMEM_ALIGNMENT_BYTES,
- 0, MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE,
- nid, true);
- if (!addr) {
+ if (kho_reserve_bootmem_area(&i, bootmem_size_node(nid),
+ MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE, nid)) {
pr_err("Failed to reserve nid %d bootmem\n", nid);
goto err_free_bootmem_areas;
}
-
- kho_bootmem[i].addr = addr;
- kho_bootmem[i].size = size;
- i++;
}
- /*
- * Nodes that needed no bootmem were skipped, so fewer areas than
- * initially estimated may have been reserved.
- */
+ /* Areas with zero size were skipped */
kho_bootmem_cnt = i;
return;
--
2.53.0