Re: [PATCH v2] x86/hyperv: Fix the detection of E820_TYPE_PRAM in a Gen2 VM

[Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 12:37:47AM -0800, Saurabh Sengar wrote:
> A Gen2 VM doesn't support legacy PCI/PCIe, so both raw_pci_ops and
> raw_pci_ext_ops are NULL, and pci_subsys_init() -> pcibios_init()
> doesn't call pcibios_resource_survey() -> e820__reserve_resources_late();
> as a result, any emulated persistent memory of E820_TYPE_PRAM (12) via
> the kernel parameter memmap=nn[KMG]!ss is not added into iomem_resource
> and hence can't be detected by register_e820_pmem().
> 
> Fix this by directly calling e820__reserve_resources_late() in
> hv_pci_init(), which is called from arch_initcall(pci_arch_init).
> 
> It's ok to move a Gen2 VM's e820__reserve_resources_late() from
> subsys_initcall(pci_subsys_init) to arch_initcall(pci_arch_init) because
> the code in-between doesn't depend on the E820 resources.
> e820__reserve_resources_late() depends on e820__reserve_resources(),
> which has been called earlier from setup_arch().
> 
> For a Gen-2 VM, the new hv_pci_init() also adds any memory of
> E820_TYPE_PMEM (7) into iomem_resource, and acpi_nfit_register_region() ->
> acpi_nfit_insert_resource() -> region_intersects() returns
> REGION_INTERSECTS, so the memory of E820_TYPE_PMEM won't get added twice.
> 
> Changed the local variable "int gen2vm" to "bool gen2vm".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar <ssengar@linux.microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>

Applied to hyperv-fixes. Thanks.