Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] fdt: Mark "/reserved-memory" nodes as nosave if !reusable

From: Rob Herring
Date: Fri Jun 09 2023 - 10:55:08 EST


On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 10:04:25AM +0200, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> The hibernation process will access those reserved memory regions if
> they are part of the linear mapping, but as described in
> devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/reserved-memory.yaml,
> "/reserved-memory" nodes should not be used as normal memory, unless they
> are marked as reusable which means the kernel can access it at some point.
>
> Otherwise those regions are only used by drivers which should do what's
> necessary when the hibernation process is started, or they can contain
> the firmware reserved memory regions which should not be accessed at all.

Hibernation is only one case. Speculative accesses could also occur. I
think some of the memory debugging stuff will walk memory as well. If
something can't be accessed, it better have 'no-map'.

>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c | 2 +

How is this specific to Risc-V? Hint, it's not.

> drivers/of/fdt.c | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/of_fdt.h | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 80 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
> index 36b026057503..642f1035b5ce 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -299,6 +299,8 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_ZICBOM) &&
> riscv_isa_extension_available(NULL, ZICBOM))
> riscv_noncoherent_supported();
> +
> + early_init_fdt_nosave_reserved_mem();
> }
>
> static int __init topology_init(void)
> diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
> index bf502ba8da95..863de7e6b10c 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
> #include <linux/serial_core.h>
> #include <linux/sysfs.h>
> #include <linux/random.h>
> +#include <linux/suspend.h>
>
> #include <asm/setup.h> /* for COMMAND_LINE_SIZE */
> #include <asm/page.h>
> @@ -494,6 +495,43 @@ static int __init early_init_dt_reserve_memory(phys_addr_t base,
> return memblock_reserve(base, size);
> }
>
> +/*
> + * __reserved_mem_nosave_reg() - Make all memory described in 'reg' property as
> + * nosave, unless it is "reusable".
> + */
> +static void __init __reserved_mem_nosave_reg(unsigned long node,
> + const char *uname)
> +{
> + int t_len = (dt_root_addr_cells + dt_root_size_cells) * sizeof(__be32);
> + phys_addr_t base, size;
> + int len;
> + const __be32 *prop;
> + bool reusable;
> +
> + prop = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, "reg", &len);
> + if (!prop)
> + return;
> +
> + if (len && len % t_len != 0) {
> + pr_err("Reserved memory: invalid reg property in '%s', skipping node.\n",
> + uname);
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + reusable = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, "reusable", NULL) != NULL;
> +
> + while (len >= t_len) {
> + base = dt_mem_next_cell(dt_root_addr_cells, &prop);
> + size = dt_mem_next_cell(dt_root_size_cells, &prop);
> +
> + if (size && !reusable)
> + register_nosave_region(phys_to_pfn(base),
> + phys_to_pfn(base + size));
> +
> + len -= t_len;
> + }
> +}
> +
> /*
> * __reserved_mem_reserve_reg() - reserve all memory described in 'reg' property
> */
> @@ -596,6 +634,38 @@ static int __init fdt_scan_reserved_mem(void)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * fdt_nosave_reserved_mem() - scan a single FDT node to mark reserved memory
> + * as nosave.
> + */
> +static int __init fdt_nosave_reserved_mem(void)
> +{
> + int node, child;
> + const void *fdt = initial_boot_params;
> +
> + node = fdt_path_offset(fdt, "/reserved-memory");
> + if (node < 0)
> + return -ENODEV;
> +
> + if (__reserved_mem_check_root(node) != 0) {
> + pr_err("Reserved memory: unsupported node format, ignoring\n");
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> +
> + fdt_for_each_subnode(child, fdt, node) {
> + const char *uname;
> +
> + if (!of_fdt_device_is_available(fdt, child))
> + continue;
> +
> + uname = fdt_get_name(fdt, child, NULL);
> +
> + __reserved_mem_nosave_reg(child, uname);
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> /*
> * fdt_reserve_elfcorehdr() - reserves memory for elf core header
> *
> @@ -649,6 +719,13 @@ void __init early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem(void)
> fdt_init_reserved_mem();
> }
>
> +void __init early_init_fdt_nosave_reserved_mem(void)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HIBERNATION
> + fdt_nosave_reserved_mem();
> +#endif
> +}
> +
> /**
> * early_init_fdt_reserve_self() - reserve the memory used by the FDT blob
> */
> diff --git a/include/linux/of_fdt.h b/include/linux/of_fdt.h
> index d69ad5bb1eb1..55eb5a0f7305 100644
> --- a/include/linux/of_fdt.h
> +++ b/include/linux/of_fdt.h
> @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ extern int early_init_dt_scan_memory(void);
> extern void early_init_dt_check_for_usable_mem_range(void);
> extern int early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout(void);
> extern void early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem(void);
> +extern void early_init_fdt_nosave_reserved_mem(void);
> extern void early_init_fdt_reserve_self(void);
> extern void early_init_dt_add_memory_arch(u64 base, u64 size);
> extern u64 dt_mem_next_cell(int s, const __be32 **cellp);
> --
> 2.39.2
>