[PATCH v2 3/7] kexec: exclude control pages from the destination addresses

Andrey Ryabinin arbn at yandex-team.com
Mon Mar 10 05:03:14 PDT 2025


Kexec relies on control pages allocated after all destination ranges
have been chosen. To be able to preserve memory across kexec we need
to be able to pick destination ranges after the control pages
allocated. Add check for control pages to locate_mem_hole() callbacks
so it excludes control pages, hence we can allocate them in any order.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <arbn at yandex-team.com>
---
 kernel/kexec_core.c     | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/kexec_file.c     | 18 ++++--------------
 kernel/kexec_internal.h |  3 +++
 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
index c0bdc1686154..647ab5705c37 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -264,6 +264,24 @@ int kimage_is_destination_range(struct kimage *image,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+int kimage_is_control_page(struct kimage *image,
+			unsigned long start,
+			unsigned long end)
+{
+
+	struct page *page;
+
+	list_for_each_entry(page, &image->control_pages, lru) {
+		unsigned long pstart, pend;
+		pstart = page_to_boot_pfn(page) << PAGE_SHIFT;
+		pend = pstart + PAGE_SIZE * (1 << page_private(page)) - 1;
+		if ((end >= pstart) && (start <= pend))
+			return 1;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static struct page *kimage_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
 {
 	struct page *pages;
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
index a024ff379133..8ecd34071bfa 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
@@ -464,7 +464,8 @@ static int locate_mem_hole_top_down(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 		 * Make sure this does not conflict with any of existing
 		 * segments
 		 */
-		if (kimage_is_destination_range(image, temp_start, temp_end)) {
+		if (kimage_is_destination_range(image, temp_start, temp_end) ||
+			kimage_is_control_page(image, temp_start, temp_end)) {
 			temp_start = temp_start - PAGE_SIZE;
 			continue;
 		}
@@ -498,7 +499,8 @@ static int locate_mem_hole_bottom_up(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 		 * Make sure this does not conflict with any of existing
 		 * segments
 		 */
-		if (kimage_is_destination_range(image, temp_start, temp_end)) {
+		if (kimage_is_destination_range(image, temp_start, temp_end) ||
+			kimage_is_control_page(image, temp_start, temp_end)) {
 			temp_start = temp_start + PAGE_SIZE;
 			continue;
 		}
@@ -671,18 +673,6 @@ int kexec_add_buffer(struct kexec_buf *kbuf)
 	if (kbuf->image->nr_segments >= KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	/*
-	 * Make sure we are not trying to add buffer after allocating
-	 * control pages. All segments need to be placed first before
-	 * any control pages are allocated. As control page allocation
-	 * logic goes through list of segments to make sure there are
-	 * no destination overlaps.
-	 */
-	if (!list_empty(&kbuf->image->control_pages)) {
-		WARN_ON(1);
-		return -EINVAL;
-	}
-
 	/* Ensure minimum alignment needed for segments. */
 	kbuf->memsz = ALIGN(kbuf->memsz, PAGE_SIZE);
 	kbuf->buf_align = max(kbuf->buf_align, PAGE_SIZE);
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_internal.h b/kernel/kexec_internal.h
index d35d9792402d..12e655a70e25 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_internal.h
+++ b/kernel/kexec_internal.h
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ int kimage_load_segment(struct kimage *image, struct kexec_segment *segment);
 void kimage_terminate(struct kimage *image);
 int kimage_is_destination_range(struct kimage *image,
 				unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
+int kimage_is_control_page(struct kimage *image,
+			unsigned long start,
+			unsigned long end);
 
 /*
  * Whatever is used to serialize accesses to the kexec_crash_image needs to be
-- 
2.45.3




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