From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,tj@kernel.org,rppt@kernel.org,rdunlap@infradead.org,pratyush@kernel.org,ojeda@kernel.org,masahiroy@kernel.org,jgg@ziepe.ca,jgg@nvidia.com,graf@amazon.com,corbet@lwn.net,brauner@kernel.org,pasha.tatashin@soleen.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: + memblock-unpreserve-memory-in-case-of-error.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2025 21:06:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251026040652.9974BC4CEE7@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The patch titled
Subject: memblock: Unpreserve memory in case of error
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is
memblock-unpreserve-memory-in-case-of-error.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/memblock-unpreserve-memory-in-case-of-error.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Subject: memblock: Unpreserve memory in case of error
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:10:02 -0400
If there is an error half way through KHO memory preservation, we should
rollback and unpreserve everything that is partially preserved.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251024161002.747372-9-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Suggested-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/memblock.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/memblock.c~memblock-unpreserve-memory-in-case-of-error
+++ a/mm/memblock.c
@@ -2447,6 +2447,7 @@ int reserve_mem_release_by_name(const ch
static int __init prepare_kho_fdt(void)
{
+ bool fdt_folio_preserved = false;
int err = 0, i;
struct page *fdt_page;
void *fdt;
@@ -2462,12 +2463,14 @@ static int __init prepare_kho_fdt(void)
err |= fdt_begin_node(fdt, "");
err |= fdt_property_string(fdt, "compatible", MEMBLOCK_KHO_NODE_COMPATIBLE);
- for (i = 0; i < reserved_mem_count; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; !err && i < reserved_mem_count; i++) {
struct reserve_mem_table *map = &reserved_mem_table[i];
struct page *page = phys_to_page(map->start);
unsigned int nr_pages = map->size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
- err |= kho_preserve_pages(page, nr_pages);
+ err = kho_preserve_pages(page, nr_pages);
+ if (err)
+ break;
err |= fdt_begin_node(fdt, map->name);
err |= fdt_property_string(fdt, "compatible", RESERVE_MEM_KHO_NODE_COMPATIBLE);
err |= fdt_property(fdt, "start", &map->start, sizeof(map->start));
@@ -2477,12 +2480,27 @@ static int __init prepare_kho_fdt(void)
err |= fdt_end_node(fdt);
err |= fdt_finish(fdt);
- err |= kho_preserve_folio(page_folio(fdt_page));
-
if (!err)
+ err = kho_preserve_folio(page_folio(fdt_page));
+
+ if (!err) {
+ fdt_folio_preserved = true;
err = kho_add_subtree(MEMBLOCK_KHO_FDT, fdt);
+ }
if (err) {
+ int nr_reserve_map_preserved = i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_reserve_map_preserved; i++) {
+ struct reserve_mem_table *map = &reserved_mem_table[i];
+ struct page *page = phys_to_page(map->start);
+ unsigned int nr_pages = map->size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+ kho_unpreserve_pages(page, nr_pages);
+ }
+ if (fdt_folio_preserved)
+ kho_unpreserve_folio(page_folio(fdt_page));
+
pr_err("failed to prepare memblock FDT for KHO: %d\n", err);
put_page(fdt_page);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from pasha.tatashin@soleen.com are
liveupdate-kho-warn-and-fail-on-metadata-or-preserved-memory-in-scratch-area.patch
liveupdate-kho-increase-metadata-bitmap-size-to-page_size.patch
liveupdate-kho-allocate-metadata-directly-from-the-buddy-allocator.patch
kho-allow-to-drive-kho-from-within-kernel.patch
kho-make-debugfs-interface-optional.patch
kho-add-interfaces-to-unpreserve-folios-and-page-ranges.patch
kho-dont-unpreserve-memory-during-abort.patch
liveupdate-kho-move-to-kernel-liveupdate.patch
liveupdate-kho-move-kho-debugfs-directory-to-liveupdate.patch
memblock-unpreserve-memory-in-case-of-error.patch
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