Re: [PATCH 14/46] sh: reserved_mem: Implement the new processing order for reserved memory

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed Jan 31 2024 - 10:42:06 EST


On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 03:53:53PM -0800, Oreoluwa Babatunde wrote:
> Call early_fdt_scan_reserved_mem() in place of
> early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem() to carry out the first stage of the
> reserved memory processing only.
>
> The early_fdt_scan_reserved_mem() function is used to scan through the
> DT and mark all the reserved memory regions as reserved or nomap as
> needed, as well as allocate the memory required by the
> dynamically-placed
> reserved memory regions.
>
> The second stage of the reserved memory processing is done by
> fdt_init_reserved_mem(). This function is used to store the information
> of the statically-placed reserved memory nodes in the reserved_mem
> array as well as call the region specific initialization function on all
> the stored reserved memory regions.
>
> The call to fdt_init_reserved_mem() is placed right after
> early_fdt_scan_reserved_mem() because memblock allocated memory should
> already be writable at this point.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oreoluwa Babatunde <quic_obabatun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/sh/boards/of-generic.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/sh/boards/of-generic.c b/arch/sh/boards/of-generic.c
> index f7f3e618e85b..7bec409f077c 100644
> --- a/arch/sh/boards/of-generic.c
> +++ b/arch/sh/boards/of-generic.c
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
> #include <linux/of.h>
> #include <linux/of_clk.h>
> #include <linux/of_fdt.h>
> +#include <linux/of_reserved_mem.h>
> #include <linux/clocksource.h>
> #include <linux/irqchip.h>
> #include <asm/machvec.h>
> @@ -110,7 +111,8 @@ static int noopi(void)
> static void __init sh_of_mem_reserve(void)
> {
> early_init_fdt_reserve_self();
> - early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem();
> + early_fdt_scan_reserved_mem();
> + fdt_init_reserved_mem();

Looking at the sh code, there's an existing problem with the order of
init. This is called from paging_init() and is done after unflattening
and copying the DT. That means the kernel could freely allocate memory
for the DT in a reserved region.

Rob