From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Chen Pei <cp0613@linux.alibaba.com>,
George Guo <guodongtai@kylinos.cn>,
Kexin Liu <liukexin@kylinos.cn>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
"Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga" <azpijr@gmail.com>,
Mukesh Pilaniya <mpilaniy@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/5] kho: skip zero-sized lowmem and global bootmem areas
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 12:38:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261112-kho-bootmem-sizing-v3-3-f0c8d00295d5@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261112-kho-bootmem-sizing-v3-0-f0c8d00295d5@kernel.org>
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@linux.alibaba.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261026131851.9942-1-cp0613@linux.alibaba.com
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga <azpijr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Pilaniya <mpilaniy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
---
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 df4a972a860da..bbc9e644addc9 100644
--- a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
+++ b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
@@ -835,6 +835,26 @@ 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, numa_valid_node(nid));
+ 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
*
@@ -846,8 +866,8 @@ 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;
@@ -867,66 +887,40 @@ 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 = 0; i < kho_bootmem_cnt; 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-12 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-12 10:38 [PATCH v3 0/5] kho: fix bootmem sizing Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-11-12 10:38 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] kho: reject zero bootmem scale Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-11-12 10:38 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] kho: walk bootmem areas in address order Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-11-12 10:38 ` Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) [this message]
2026-11-12 10:38 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] kho: fix bootmem sizing Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-11-12 10:38 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] kho: docs: update description of bootmem regions Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
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