[PATCH v3 1/2] x86/setup: don't remove E820_TYPE_RAM for pfn 0

Mike Rapoport
2021-01-11T19:41:14Z

From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>

The first 4Kb of memory is a BIOS owned area and to avoid its allocation
for the kernel it was not listed in e820 tables as memory. As the result,
pfn 0 was never recognised by the generic memory management and it is not a
part of neither node 0 nor ZONE_DMA.

If set_pfnblock_flags_mask() would be ever called for the pageblock
corresponding to the first 2Mbytes of memory, having pfn 0 outside of
ZONE_DMA would trigger

VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!zone_spans_pfn(page_zone(page), pfn), page);

Along with reserving the first 4Kb in e820 tables, several first pages are
reserved with memblock in several places during setup_arch(). These
reservations are enough to ensure the kernel does not touch the BIOS area
and it is not necessary to remove E820_TYPE_RAM for pfn 0.

Remove the update of e820 table that changes the type of pfn 0 and move the
comment describing why it was done to trim_low_memory_range() that reserves
the beginning of the memory.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 20 +++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 740f3bdb3f61..3412c4595efd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -660,17 +660,6 @@ static void __init trim_platform_memory_ranges(void)

static void __init trim_bios_range(void)
{
- /*
- * A special case is the first 4Kb of memory;
- * This is a BIOS owned area, not kernel ram, but generally
- * not listed as such in the E820 table.
- *
- * This typically reserves additional memory (64KiB by default)
- * since some BIOSes are known to corrupt low memory. See the
- * Kconfig help text for X86_RESERVE_LOW.
- */
- e820__range_update(0, PAGE_SIZE, E820_TYPE_RAM, E820_TYPE_RESERVED);
-
/*
* special case: Some BIOSes report the PC BIOS
* area (640Kb -> 1Mb) as RAM even though it is not.
@@ -728,6 +717,15 @@ early_param("reservelow", parse_reservelow);

static void __init trim_low_memory_range(void)
{
+ /*
+ * A special case is the first 4Kb of memory;
+ * This is a BIOS owned area, not kernel ram, but generally
+ * not listed as such in the E820 table.
+ *
+ * This typically reserves additional memory (64KiB by default)
+ * since some BIOSes are known to corrupt low memory. See the
+ * Kconfig help text for X86_RESERVE_LOW.
+ */
memblock_reserve(0, ALIGN(reserve_low, PAGE_SIZE));
}

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