On 21.12.2016 20:28, Nicolai Stange wrote:
> Before invoking the arch specific handler, efi_mem_reserve() reserves
> the given memory region through memblock.
>
> efi_mem_reserve() can get called after mm_init() though -- through
> efi_bgrt_init(), for example. After mm_init(), memblock is dead and should
> not be used anymore.
>
> Let efi_mem_reserve() check whether memblock is dead and not do the
> reservation if so. Emit a warning from the generic efi_arch mem_reserve()
> in this case: if the architecture doesn't provide any other means of
> registering the region as reserved, the operation would be a nop.
>
> Fixes: 4bc9f92e64c8 ("x86/efi-bgrt: Use efi_mem_reserve() to avoid copying image data")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> index 92914801e388..12b2e3a6d73f 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> @@ -403,7 +403,10 @@ u64 __init efi_mem_desc_end(efi_memory_desc_t *md)
> return end;
> }
>
> -void __init __weak efi_arch_mem_reserve(phys_addr_t addr, u64 size) {}
> +void __init __weak efi_arch_mem_reserve(phys_addr_t addr, u64 size)
> +{
> + WARN(slab_is_available(), "efi_mem_reserve() has no effect");
> +}
>
> /**
> * efi_mem_reserve - Reserve an EFI memory region
> @@ -419,7 +422,7 @@ void __init __weak efi_arch_mem_reserve(phys_addr_t addr, u64 size) {}
> */
> void __init efi_mem_reserve(phys_addr_t addr, u64 size)
> {
> - if (!memblock_is_region_reserved(addr, size))
> + if (slab_is_available() && !memblock_is_region_reserved(addr, size))
> memblock_reserve(addr, size);
Maybe !slab_is_available() ?
>
--Mika
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