The quilt patch titled Subject: mm: disable kernelcore=mirror when no mirror memory has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-disable-kernelcore=mirror-when-no-mirror-memory.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Ma Wupeng <mawupeng1@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: disable kernelcore=mirror when no mirror memory Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 15:23:28 +0800 For system with kernelcore=mirror enabled while no mirrored memory is reported by efi. This could lead to kernel OOM during startup since all memory beside zone DMA are in the movable zone and this prevents the kernel to use it. Zone DMA/DMA32 initialization is independent of mirrored memory and their max pfn is set in zone_sizes_init(). Since kernel can fallback to zone DMA/DMA32 if there is no memory in zone Normal, these zones are seen as mirrored memory no mather their memory attributes are. To solve this problem, disable kernelcore=mirror when there is no real mirrored memory exists. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802072328.2107981-1-mawupeng1@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ma Wupeng <mawupeng1@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Levi Yun <ppbuk5246@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/internal.h | 1 + mm/memblock.c | 5 +++++ mm/mm_init.c | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+) --- a/mm/internal.h~mm-disable-kernelcore=mirror-when-no-mirror-memory +++ a/mm/internal.h @@ -1022,6 +1022,7 @@ static inline bool gup_must_unshare(stru } extern bool mirrored_kernelcore; +extern bool memblock_has_mirror(void); static inline bool vma_soft_dirty_enabled(struct vm_area_struct *vma) { --- a/mm/memblock.c~mm-disable-kernelcore=mirror-when-no-mirror-memory +++ a/mm/memblock.c @@ -161,6 +161,11 @@ static int memblock_can_resize __initdat static int memblock_memory_in_slab __initdata_memblock; static int memblock_reserved_in_slab __initdata_memblock; +bool __init_memblock memblock_has_mirror(void) +{ + return system_has_some_mirror; +} + static enum memblock_flags __init_memblock choose_memblock_flags(void) { return system_has_some_mirror ? MEMBLOCK_MIRROR : MEMBLOCK_NONE; --- a/mm/mm_init.c~mm-disable-kernelcore=mirror-when-no-mirror-memory +++ a/mm/mm_init.c @@ -376,6 +376,11 @@ static void __init find_zone_movable_pfn if (mirrored_kernelcore) { bool mem_below_4gb_not_mirrored = false; + if (!memblock_has_mirror()) { + pr_warn("The system has no mirror memory, ignore kernelcore=mirror.\n"); + goto out; + } + for_each_mem_region(r) { if (memblock_is_mirror(r)) continue; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mawupeng1@xxxxxxxxxx are