[PATCH v2 3/3] riscv/kexec: load initrd high in available memory

Petr Tesarik petrtesarik at huaweicloud.com
Wed Jul 26 02:54:01 PDT 2023


From: Torsten Duwe <duwe at suse.de>

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 at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <petr.tesarik.ext at huawei.com>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
---
 arch/riscv/kernel/elf_kexec.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/elf_kexec.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/elf_kexec.c
index 38390d3bdcac..c08bb5c3b385 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/elf_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/elf_kexec.c
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ static void *elf_kexec_load(struct kimage *image, char *kernel_buf,
 		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)
-- 
2.25.1




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