This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
riscv/kexec: load initrd high in available memory
to the 6.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
riscv-kexec-load-initrd-high-in-available-memory.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 49af7a2cd5f678217b8b4f86a29411aebebf3e78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Torsten Duwe <duwe@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:54:01 +0200
Subject: riscv/kexec: load initrd high in available memory
From: Torsten Duwe <duwe@xxxxxxx>
commit 49af7a2cd5f678217b8b4f86a29411aebebf3e78 upstream.
When initrd is loaded low, the secondary kernel fails like this:
INITRD: 0xdc581000+0x00eef000 overlaps in-use memory region
This initrd load address corresponds to the _end symbol, but the
reservation is aligned on PMD_SIZE, as explained by a comment in
setup_bootmem().
It is technically possible to align the initrd load address accordingly,
leaving a hole between the end of kernel and the initrd, but it is much
simpler to allocate the initrd top-down.
Fixes: 838b3e28488f ("RISC-V: Load purgatory in kexec_file")
Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <petr.tesarik.ext@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67c8eb9eea25717c2c8208d9bfbfaa39e6e2a1c6.1690365011.git.petr.tesarik.ext@xxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/riscv/kernel/elf_kexec.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/elf_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/elf_kexec.c
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ static void *elf_kexec_load(struct kimag
kbuf.buffer = initrd;
kbuf.bufsz = kbuf.memsz = initrd_len;
kbuf.buf_align = PAGE_SIZE;
- kbuf.top_down = false;
+ kbuf.top_down = true;
kbuf.mem = KEXEC_BUF_MEM_UNKNOWN;
ret = kexec_add_buffer(&kbuf);
if (ret)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from duwe@xxxxxxx are
queue-6.4/riscv-kexec-load-initrd-high-in-available-memory.patch
queue-6.4/riscv-kexec-handle-r_riscv_call_plt-relocation-type.patch
