[PATCH v8 01/17] memblock: add MEMBLOCK_RSRV_KERN flag

Breno Leitao leitao at debian.org
Fri Oct 10 02:33:59 PDT 2025


Hello Chanyuan, Mike,

On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 12:46:19AM -0700, Changyuan Lyu wrote:
> --- a/mm/memblock.c
> +++ b/mm/memblock.c
> @@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ static int __init_memblock memblock_double_array(struct memblock_type *type,
>  	 * needn't do it
>  	 */
>  	if (!use_slab)
> -		BUG_ON(memblock_reserve(addr, new_alloc_size));
> +		BUG_ON(memblock_reserve_kern(addr, new_alloc_size));
>  
>  	/* Update slab flag */
>  	*in_slab = use_slab;
> @@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ static int __init_memblock memblock_add_range(struct memblock_type *type,
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
>  			WARN_ON(nid != memblock_get_region_node(rgn));
>  #endif
> -			WARN_ON(flags != rgn->flags);
> +			WARN_ON(flags != MEMBLOCK_NONE && flags != rgn->flags);

I am hitting some sporadic warnings at early boot on a production kernel
(6.16). Unfortunately this issue is not easily reproduce for me to test on
upstream.

	09:14:44  BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009ffff] usable
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000a0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x0000000064cb7fff] usable
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000064cb8000-0x0000000064dc3fff] reserved
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000064dc4000-0x0000000065b13fff] usable
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000065b14000-0x0000000065b61fff] reserved
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000065b62000-0x0000000065ed0fff] usable
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000065ed1000-0x0000000065f2bfff] reserved
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000065f2c000-0x0000000066621fff] usable
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000066622000-0x0000000066630fff] reserved
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000066631000-0x0000000068107fff] usable
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000068108000-0x000000006819dfff] ACPI data
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000006819e000-0x000000006a48cfff] usable
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000006a48d000-0x000000006c58cfff] reserved
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000006c58d000-0x000000006c5dcfff] ACPI data
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000006c5dd000-0x000000006cfdcfff] ACPI NVS
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000006cfdd000-0x000000006e9fcfff] reserved
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000006e9fd000-0x000000006fffffff] usable
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000070000000-0x000000008fffffff] reserved
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fd000000-0x00000000fe7fffff] reserved
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fed20000-0x00000000fed44fff] reserved
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ff000000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000107fff655f] usable
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000107fff6560-0x000000107fff656f] type 128
	09:14:44  BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000107fff6570-0x000000107fffffff] usable
	09:14:44  random: crng init done
	09:14:44  ------------[ cut here ]------------
	09:14:44 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at mm/memblock.c:668 memblock_add_range (mm/memblock.c:668)
	09:14:44  Modules linked in:
	09:14:44  Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
	09:14:44 RIP: 0010:memblock_add_range (mm/memblock.c:668)
	09:14:44 Code: 28 80 3c 01 00 0f 84 04 fd ff ff 4c 89 ef e8 6c 77 09 00 e9 f7 fc ff ff 0f 0b 83 7c 24 1c 00 0f 85 9c fd ff ff e9 c5 fd ff ff <0f> 0b e9 be fd ff ff 44 89 f1 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 6b fd
	All code
	========
	0:    28 80 3c 01 00 0f        sub    %al,0xf00013c(%rax)
	6:    84 04 fd ff ff 4c 89     test   %al,-0x76b30001(,%rdi,8)
	d:    ef                       out    %eax,(%dx)
	e:    e8 6c 77 09 00           call   0x9777f
	13:    e9 f7 fc ff ff           jmp    0xfffffffffffffd0f
	18:    0f 0b                    ud2
	1a:    83 7c 24 1c 00           cmpl   $0x0,0x1c(%rsp)
	1f:    0f 85 9c fd ff ff        jne    0xfffffffffffffdc1
	25:    e9 c5 fd ff ff           jmp    0xfffffffffffffdef
	2a:*    0f 0b                    ud2            <-- trapping instruction
	2c:    e9 be fd ff ff           jmp    0xfffffffffffffdef
	31:    44 89 f1                 mov    %r14d,%ecx
	34:    80 e1 07                 and    $0x7,%cl
	37:    80 c1 03                 add    $0x3,%cl
	3a:    38 c1                    cmp    %al,%cl
	3c:    0f                       .byte 0xf
	3d:    8c 6b fd                 mov    %gs,-0x3(%rbx)

	Code starting with the faulting instruction
	===========================================
	0:    0f 0b                    ud2
	2:    e9 be fd ff ff           jmp    0xfffffffffffffdc5
	7:    44 89 f1                 mov    %r14d,%ecx
	a:    80 e1 07                 and    $0x7,%cl
	d:    80 c1 03                 add    $0x3,%cl
	10:    38 c1                    cmp    %al,%cl
	12:    0f                       .byte 0xf
	13:    8c 6b fd                 mov    %gs,-0x3(%rbx)
	09:14:44  RSP: 0000:ffffffff85e07d48 EFLAGS: 00010083 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
	09:14:44  RAX: 0000000000000020 RBX: 0000000000001c00 RCX: dffffc0000000000
	09:14:44  RDX: 000000000009f000 RSI: 000000000009d000 RDI: ffffffff8685ebf8
	09:14:44  RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000020 R09: 0000000000000000
	09:14:44  R10: ffffffffff200570 R11: fffffbffffe400b2 R12: 000000000009d000
	09:14:44  R13: 0000000000100000 R14: ffffffff8edf5ce4 R15: ffffffff8edf5ce0
	09:14:44  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:0000000000000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
	09:14:44  CR2: ffff888059e2dff8 CR3: 000000005bc1d000 CR4: 00000000000000b0
	09:14:44  Call Trace:
	09:14:44   <TASK>
	09:14:44 ? __memblock_reserve (mm/memblock.c:936)
	09:14:44 ? add_early_ima_buffer (arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:413)
	09:14:44 ? parse_setup_data (arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:500)
	09:14:44 ? setup_arch (arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:245 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:958)
	09:14:44 ? start_kernel (init/main.c:922)
	09:14:44 ? x86_64_start_reservations (arch/x86/kernel/ebda.c:57)
	09:14:44 ? x86_64_start_kernel (arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:231)
	09:14:44 ? common_startup_64 (arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S:419)
	09:14:44   </TASK>
	....
	Memory: 49640988K/66772816K available (54946K kernel code, 19058K rwdata, 22636K rodata, 2940K init, 120968K bss, 10650188K reserved, 6291456K cma-reserved)

So, there is a memory override, and I am curious about it. Do you think it
would be useful to expand this warning to dump more information about the
issue? (only compiled tested)

	if (flags != MEMBLOCK_NONE && flags != rgn->flags) {
		pr_warn("memblock: Flag mismatch at region [%pa-%pa]\n",
			&rgn->base, &rend);
		pr_warn("  Existing region flags: %#x\n", rgn->flags);
		pr_warn("  New range flags: %#x\n", flags);
		pr_warn("  New range: [%pa-%pa]\n", &base, &end);
		WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
	}

Thanks
--breno



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