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

Palmer Dabbelt palmer at dabbelt.com
Tue Feb 6 17:04:32 PST 2024


On Fri, 02 Feb 2024 10:28:54 PST (-0800), Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> 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.

Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>

Thanks!



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