Justification: ============== Kexec_load interface has been doing top down searching and loading kernel/initrd/purgtory etc to prepare for kexec reboot. In that way, the benefits are that it avoids to consume and fragment limited low memory which satisfy DMA buffer allocation and big chunk of continuous memory during system init; and avoids to stir with BIOS/FW reserved or occupied areas, or corner case handling/work around/quirk occupied areas when doing system init. By the way, the top-down searching and loading of kexec-ed kernel is done in user space utility code. For kexec_file loading, even if kexec_buf.top_down is 'true', it's simply ignored. It calls walk_system_ram_res() directly to go through all resources of System RAM bottom up, to find an available memory region, then call locate_mem_hole_callback() to allocate memory in that found memory region from top to down. This is not expected and inconsistent with kexec_load. Implementation =============== In patch 1, introduce a new function walk_system_ram_res_rev() which is a variant of walk_system_ram_res(), it walks through a list of all the resources of System RAM in reversed order, i.e., from higher to lower. In patch 2, check if kexec_buf.top_down is 'true' in kexec_walk_resources(), if yes, call walk_system_ram_res_rev() to find memory region of system RAM from top to down to load kernel/initrd etc. Background information: ======================= And I ever tried this in the past in a different way, please see below link. In the post, I tried to adjust struct sibling linking code, replace the the singly linked list with list_head so that walk_system_ram_res_rev() can be implemented in a much easier way. Finally I failed. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20180718024944.577-4-bhe@xxxxxxxxxx/ This time, I picked up the patch from AKASHI Takahiro's old post and made some change to take as the current patch 1: https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2017-September/531456.html Testing: ======== Only tried on x86_64 Baoquan He (2): resource: add walk_system_ram_res_rev() kexec_file: Load kernel at top of system RAM if required include/linux/ioport.h | 3 +++ kernel/kexec_file.c | 2 ++ kernel/resource.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 66 insertions(+) -- 2.41.0 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
