[PATCH 2/2] ACPI: arm64: Reserve the ACPI tables in memblock

[Moritz Fischer]

Marc,

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 02:35:33PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Just like the EFI reservations, ACPI tables can be stamped over
> by kexec_file_load(), and the secondary kernel will be unable to
> recover from such corruption.
> 
> It looks like our x86 friends have been there before, and have
> recently added some infratructure that does what we need since
> 1a1c130ab757 ("ACPI: tables: x86: Reserve memory occupied by ACPI
> tables"), though it appears to exist for different reasons.
> 
> Let's call into acpi_reserve_initial_tables() early so that
> our tables are protected from the big bad kexec.
> 

Feel free to add (and/or):

Tested-by: Moritz Fischer <mdf at kernel.org>
Reported-by: Moritz Fischer <mdf at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c
> index cada0b816c8a..5b5406c92ee4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c
> @@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ void __init acpi_boot_table_init(void)
>  		if (earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable)
>  			early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout();
>  	} else {
> +		acpi_reserve_initial_tables();
>  		acpi_parse_spcr(earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable, true);
>  		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI_BGRT))
>  			acpi_table_parse(ACPI_SIG_BGRT, acpi_parse_bgrt);
> -- 
> 2.29.2
> 
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Thanks,
Moritz