[RFC PATCH v2 15/26] of/fdt: Introduce early_init_dt_add_memory_hyp()

[Rob Herring]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:15 AM Quentin Perret <qperret at google.com> wrote:
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> On Tuesday 12 Jan 2021 at 09:53:36 (-0600), Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 8:26 AM Quentin Perret <qperret at google.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 12 Jan 2021 at 08:10:47 (-0600), Rob Herring wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 3:51 AM Quentin Perret <qperret at google.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Monday 11 Jan 2021 at 08:45:10 (-0600), Rob Herring wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 6:16 AM Quentin Perret <qperret at google.com> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Introduce early_init_dt_add_memory_hyp() to allow KVM to conserve a copy
> > > > > > > of the memory regions parsed from DT. This will be needed in the context
> > > > > > > of the protected nVHE feature of KVM/arm64 where the code running at EL2
> > > > > > > will be cleanly separated from the host kernel during boot, and will
> > > > > > > need its own representation of memory.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What happened to doing this with memblock?
> > > > >
> > > > > I gave it a go, but as mentioned in v1, I ran into issues for nomap
> > > > > regions. I want the hypervisor to know about these memory regions (it's
> > > > > possible some of those will be given to protected guests for instance)
> > > > > but these seem to be entirely removed from the memblocks when using DT:
> > > > >
> > > > > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/of/fdt.c#L1153
> > > > >
> > > > > EFI appears to do things differently, though, as it 'just' uses
> > > > > memblock_mark_nomap() instead of actively removing the memblock. And that
> > > > > means I could actually use the memblock API for EFI, but I'd rather
> > > > > have a common solution. I tried to understand why things are done
> > > > > differently but couldn't find an answer and kept things simple and
> > > > > working for now.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there a good reason for not using memblock_mark_nomap() with DT? If
> > > > > not, I'm happy to try that.
> > > >
> > > > There were 2 patches to do that, but it never got resolved. See here[1].
> > >
> > > Thanks. So the DT stuff predates the introduction of memblock_mark_nomap,
> > > that's why...
> > >
> > > By reading the discussions, [1] still looks a sensible patch on its own,
> > > independently from the issue Nicolas tried to solve. Any reason for not
> > > applying it?
> >
> > As I mentioned in the thread, same patch with 2 different reasons. So
> > I just wanted a better commit message covering both.
>
> Sorry if I'm being thick, but I'm not seeing it. How are they the same?
> IIUC, as per Nicolas' last reply, using memblock_mark_nomap() does not
> solve his issue with a broken DT. These 2 patches address two completely
> separate issues no?

Umm, yes you are right. But both are dealing with nomap. So someone
needs to sort out what the right thing to do here is. No one cared
enough to follow up in a year and a half.

Rob