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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/9] mm/memory-failure: efi: add the LINUX_EFI_POISONED_MEMORY configuration table
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:05:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260915130540.C919E1F000FF@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260915-hwpoison-kho-v5-2-3bc7a57bd503@debian.org>
> 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@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great!
--
Sashiko AI review · https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260915-hwpoison-kho-v5-0-3bc7a57bd503@debian.org?part=2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-15 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-15 12:53 [PATCH v5 0/9] mm/memory-failure: keep hardware-poisoned pages out of the next kexec Breno Leitao
2026-09-15 12:53 ` [PATCH v5 1/9] mm/page_alloc: factor out the accept-and-free tail of __free_pages_core() Breno Leitao
2026-09-15 12:57 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-15 12:53 ` [PATCH v5 2/9] mm/memory-failure: efi: add the LINUX_EFI_POISONED_MEMORY configuration table Breno Leitao
2026-09-15 13:05 ` sashiko-bot [this message]
2026-09-15 12:53 ` [PATCH v5 3/9] mm/memory-failure: libstub: install the poisoned-memory EFI table Breno Leitao
2026-09-15 13:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-15 14:00 ` Breno Leitao
2026-09-15 12:53 ` [PATCH v5 4/9] mm/memory-failure: efi: adopt the inherited poisoned-memory table Breno Leitao
2026-09-15 13:24 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-15 12:53 ` [PATCH v5 5/9] mm/memory-failure: efi: record hardware-poisoned frames into the " Breno Leitao
2026-09-15 13:36 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-15 14:33 ` Breno Leitao
2026-09-15 12:53 ` [PATCH v5 6/9] mm/memory-failure: efi: answer whether a range is poisoned Breno Leitao
2026-09-15 13:45 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-16 6:44 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-15 12:53 ` [PATCH v5 7/9] drivers/base/memory: count inherited poisoned frames into the block Breno Leitao
2026-09-15 13:59 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-16 6:48 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-16 9:35 ` Breno Leitao
2026-09-15 12:53 ` [PATCH v5 8/9] mm/memory-failure: add hwpoison_boot_page() to flag an inherited frame Breno Leitao
2026-09-15 14:11 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-15 12:53 ` [PATCH v5 9/9] mm/memory-failure: keep inherited poisoned frames out of the buddy allocator Breno Leitao
2026-09-15 14:25 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-16 8:32 ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
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