[PATCH v7 2/3] kho: fix deferred init of kho scratch

[Zi Yan]

On 17 Mar 2026, at 10:15, Michal Clapinski wrote:

> Currently, if DEFERRED is enabled, kho_release_scratch will initialize
> the struct pages and set migratetype of kho scratch. Unless the whole
> scratch fit below first_deferred_pfn, some of that will be overwritten
> either by deferred_init_pages or memmap_init_reserved_pages.
>
> To fix it, I modified kho_release_scratch to only set the migratetype
> on already initialized pages. Then, modified init_pageblock_migratetype
> to set the migratetype to CMA if the page is located inside scratch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Clapinski <mclapinski at google.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/memblock.h           |  2 --
>  kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c | 10 ++++++----
>  mm/memblock.c                      | 22 ----------------------
>  mm/page_alloc.c                    |  7 +++++++
>  4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>

<snip>

> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index ee81f5c67c18..5ca078dde61d 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
>  #include <linux/cacheinfo.h>
>  #include <linux/pgalloc_tag.h>
>  #include <linux/mmzone_lock.h>
> +#include <linux/kexec_handover.h>
>  #include <asm/div64.h>
>  #include "internal.h"
>  #include "shuffle.h"
> @@ -549,6 +550,12 @@ void __meminit init_pageblock_migratetype(struct page *page,
>  		     migratetype < MIGRATE_PCPTYPES))
>  		migratetype = MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE;
>
> +	/*
> +	 * Mark KHO scratch as CMA so no unmovable allocations are made there.
> +	 */
> +	if (unlikely(kho_scratch_overlap(page_to_phys(page), PAGE_SIZE)))
> +		migratetype = MIGRATE_CMA;
> +

If this is only for deferred init code, why not put it in deferred_free_pages()?
Otherwise, all init_pageblock_migratetype() callers need to pay the penalty
of traversing kho_scratch array.


>  	flags = migratetype;
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION



Best Regards,
Yan, Zi