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Wed, 04 Nov 2026 02:50:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.22] ([83.231.69.9]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-4b2a555e59dsm145066805e9.0.2026.11.04.02.50.03 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 04 Nov 2026 02:50:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <70686061-787c-4c99-ba5b-ff982c8cc2ad@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2026 11:50:02 +0100 X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] memblock: keep reserve_mem regions out of KHO bootmem From: "Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga" To: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Mike Rapoport , Andrew Morton , Kees Cook , Alexander Graf , Changyuan Lyu , Tony Luck , "Guilherme G. Piccoli" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pasha Tatashin , kexec@lists.infradead.org References: <20261021211058.83483-1-azpijr@gmail.com> <2vxzqzhhg8l3.fsf@kernel.org> <32dd1f28-db55-4674-99bc-74d9d3ab25db@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <32dd1f28-db55-4674-99bc-74d9d3ab25db@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/22/26 10:16 PM, Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga wrote: > On 10/22/26 3:37 PM, Pratyush Yadav wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 21 2026, Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga wrote: >> >>> On a KHO boot, a reserve_mem= region that can't be revived (new name, >>> size or alignment) can be allocated from KHO bootmem, which the next >>> kernel boots out of. With CONFIG_KEXEC_HANDOVER_DEBUG preserving it >>> fails; without it, the next kernel's memmap ends up on top of it. >> What's your use-case? Why are you adding new reserve_mem regions after >> cold boot? I'd rather avoid making purely theoretical fixes. > > I don't have one, I found it through the TODO. a different reserve_mem= > in the cmdline passed to kexec is enough to hit it. > > if it isn't meant to work across a live update, would you rather have > reserve_mem() fail on KHO boot when it can't revive the region? > ping, I can send a v2 either way. -- cheers, jose a. p-a