From 5b86af1ded2d90402477dce6d4cf8dfa95cca6ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Evangelos Petrongonas Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:59:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO) When KHO (Kexec HandOver) is enabled, it sets up scratch memory regions early during device tree scanning. After kexec, the new kernel exclusively uses this region for memory allocations during boot up to the initialization of the page allocator However, when booting with EFI, EFI's reserve_regions() uses memblock_remove(0, PHYS_ADDR_MAX) to clear all memory regions before rebuilding them from EFI data. This destroys KHO scratch regions and their flags, thus causing a kernel panic, as there are no scratch memory regions. Instead of wholesale removal, iterate through memory regions and only remove non-KHO ones. This preserves KHO scratch regions, which are good known memory, while still allowing EFI to rebuild its memory map. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b34da9fd50c89644cd4204136cfa6f5533445c56.1755721529.git.epetron@amazon.de Signed-off-by: Evangelos Petrongonas Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Acked-by: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Alexander Graf Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Changyuan Lyu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/firmware/efi/efi-init.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-init.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-init.c index a00e07b853f22..a65c2d5b9e7b6 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-init.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-init.c @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -164,12 +165,32 @@ static __init void reserve_regions(void) pr_info("Processing EFI memory map:\n"); /* - * Discard memblocks discovered so far: if there are any at this - * point, they originate from memory nodes in the DT, and UEFI - * uses its own memory map instead. + * Discard memblocks discovered so far except for KHO scratch + * regions. Most memblocks at this point originate from memory nodes + * in the DT and UEFI uses its own memory map instead. However, if + * KHO is enabled, scratch regions, which are good known memory + * must be preserved. */ memblock_dump_all(); - memblock_remove(0, PHYS_ADDR_MAX); + + if (is_kho_boot()) { + struct memblock_region *r; + + /* Remove all non-KHO regions */ + for_each_mem_region(r) { + if (!memblock_is_kho_scratch(r)) { + memblock_remove(r->base, r->size); + r--; + } + } + } else { + /* + * KHO is disabled. Discard memblocks discovered so far: + * if there are any at this point, they originate from memory + * nodes in the DT, and UEFI uses its own memory map instead. + */ + memblock_remove(0, PHYS_ADDR_MAX); + } for_each_efi_memory_desc(md) { paddr = md->phys_addr; -- 2.47.3