[PATCH v3 1/2] x86/setup: don't remove E820_TYPE_RAM for pfn 0
From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-01-11 19:41:14
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From: Mike Rapoport <redacted> The first 4Kb of memory is a BIOS owned area and to avoid its allocation for the kernel it was not listed in e820 tables as memory. As the result, pfn 0 was never recognised by the generic memory management and it is not a part of neither node 0 nor ZONE_DMA. If set_pfnblock_flags_mask() would be ever called for the pageblock corresponding to the first 2Mbytes of memory, having pfn 0 outside of ZONE_DMA would trigger VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!zone_spans_pfn(page_zone(page), pfn), page); Along with reserving the first 4Kb in e820 tables, several first pages are reserved with memblock in several places during setup_arch(). These reservations are enough to ensure the kernel does not touch the BIOS area and it is not necessary to remove E820_TYPE_RAM for pfn 0. Remove the update of e820 table that changes the type of pfn 0 and move the comment describing why it was done to trim_low_memory_range() that reserves the beginning of the memory. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <redacted> --- arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 20 +++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 740f3bdb3f61..3412c4595efd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c@@ -660,17 +660,6 @@ static void __init trim_platform_memory_ranges(void) static void __init trim_bios_range(void) { - /* - * A special case is the first 4Kb of memory; - * This is a BIOS owned area, not kernel ram, but generally - * not listed as such in the E820 table. - * - * This typically reserves additional memory (64KiB by default) - * since some BIOSes are known to corrupt low memory. See the - * Kconfig help text for X86_RESERVE_LOW. - */ - e820__range_update(0, PAGE_SIZE, E820_TYPE_RAM, E820_TYPE_RESERVED); - /* * special case: Some BIOSes report the PC BIOS * area (640Kb -> 1Mb) as RAM even though it is not.
@@ -728,6 +717,15 @@ early_param("reservelow", parse_reservelow); static void __init trim_low_memory_range(void) { + /* + * A special case is the first 4Kb of memory; + * This is a BIOS owned area, not kernel ram, but generally + * not listed as such in the E820 table. + * + * This typically reserves additional memory (64KiB by default) + * since some BIOSes are known to corrupt low memory. See the + * Kconfig help text for X86_RESERVE_LOW. + */ memblock_reserve(0, ALIGN(reserve_low, PAGE_SIZE)); }
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