[PATCH v2 2/3] kho: skip zero-sized lowmem and global bootmem areas

From: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)

Date: Wed Nov 04 2026 - 12:02:50 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 | 66 +++++++++++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
index 2ac5d94f33fd4..5b1797d1289c8 100644
--- a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
+++ b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
@@ -829,6 +829,26 @@ static int __init kho_bootmem_cmp(const void *_a, const void *_b)
return cmp_int(a->addr, b->addr);
}

+static int __init kho_reserve_bootmem_area(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t end,
+ int nid)
+{
+ phys_addr_t addr;
+
+ if (!size)
+ return 0;
+
+ addr = memblock_alloc_range_nid(size, BOOTMEM_ALIGNMENT_BYTES, 0, end,
+ nid, true);
+ if (!addr)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ kho_bootmem[kho_bootmem_cnt].addr = addr;
+ kho_bootmem[kho_bootmem_cnt].size = size;
+ kho_bootmem_cnt++;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
/**
* kho_reserve_bootmem - Reserve a contiguous chunk of memory for kexec
*
@@ -840,8 +860,8 @@ static int __init kho_bootmem_cmp(const void *_a, const void *_b)
*/
static void __init kho_reserve_bootmem(void)
{
- int nid, i = 0, max_nr_bootmem;
- phys_addr_t addr, size;
+ int nid, max_nr_bootmem;
+ phys_addr_t size;

if (!kho_enable)
return;
@@ -861,66 +881,40 @@ 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(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(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(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.
- */
- kho_bootmem_cnt = i;
-
sort(kho_bootmem, kho_bootmem_cnt, sizeof(*kho_bootmem),
kho_bootmem_cmp, NULL);

return;

err_free_bootmem_areas:
- for (i--; i >= 0; i--)
+ for (int i = kho_bootmem_cnt - 1; i >= 0; i--)
memblock_phys_free(kho_bootmem[i].addr, kho_bootmem[i].size);
+ kho_bootmem_cnt = 0;
err_free_bootmem_desc:
memblock_free(kho_bootmem, max_nr_bootmem * sizeof(*kho_bootmem));
err_disable_kho:

--
2.53.0