At least with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100000, if there is < 4 MiB of
contiguous free memory available at this point, the kernel will crash
and burn because memblock_phys_alloc_range() returns 0 on failure,
which leads memblock_phys_free() to throw the first 4 MiB of physical
memory to the wolves.
At a minimum it should fail gracefully with a meaningful diagnostic,
but in fact everything seems to work fine without the weird reserve
allocation.
Signed-off-by: Philip Redkin <me@rarity.fan>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/94b3e98f-96a7-3560-1f76-349eb95ccf7f@rarity.fan
*/
addr = memblock_phys_alloc_range(PMD_SIZE, PMD_SIZE, map_start,
map_end);
- memblock_phys_free(addr, PMD_SIZE);
- real_end = addr + PMD_SIZE;
+ if (!addr) {
+ pr_warn("Failed to release memory for alloc_low_pages()");
+ real_end = max(map_start, ALIGN_DOWN(map_end, PMD_SIZE));
+ } else {
+ memblock_phys_free(addr, PMD_SIZE);
+ real_end = addr + PMD_SIZE;
+ }
/* step_size need to be small so pgt_buf from BRK could cover it */
step_size = PMD_SIZE;