[PATCH v2 0/2] efi: Fixes for EFI_MEMORY_SP memory on RISC-V and ARM64

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Fri Feb 2 10:28:54 PST 2024


On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 at 19:07, Andrew Bresticker <abrestic at rivosinc.com> wrote:
>
> Two small fixes to enable the use soft-reserved/special-purpose memory
> (EFI_MEMORY_SP) with dax_kmem on RISC-V (and ARM64, I think, though I
> don't have a platform to test it on).
>
> Patch 1 fixes a trivial integer narrowing bug. Patch 2 prevents adding
> memblocks for soft-reserved memory so that it can later be hotplugged by
> dax_kmem.
>
> Tested on a RISC-V platform that presents a range of EFI_MEMORY_SP with
> Bjorn's MEMORY_HOTPLUG series[0] applied.
>
> [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230512145737.985671-1-bjorn@kernel.org/
>
> v1->v2: address comments from Ard
>
> Andrew Bresticker (2):
>   efi: runtime: Fix potential overflow of soft-reserved region size
>   efi: Don't add memblocks for soft-reserved memory
>

Thanks, I'll take these both as fixes.



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