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. Here check if kexec_buf.top_down is 'true' in kexec_walk_resources(), if yes, call the newly added walk_system_ram_res_rev() to find memory region of system RAM from top to down to load kernel/initrd etc. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/kexec_file.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c index f9a419cd22d4..ba3ef30921b8 100644 --- a/kernel/kexec_file.c +++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c @@ -592,6 +592,8 @@ static int kexec_walk_resources(struct kexec_buf *kbuf, IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM | IORESOURCE_BUSY, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end, kbuf, func); + else if (kbuf->top_down) + return walk_system_ram_res_rev(0, ULONG_MAX, kbuf, func); else return walk_system_ram_res(0, ULONG_MAX, kbuf, func); } -- 2.41.0
