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    arm64, mm, efi: Account for GICv3 LPI tables in static memblock reserve table · 8a5b403d
    Ard Biesheuvel authored
    In the irqchip and EFI code, we have what basically amounts to a quirk
    to work around a peculiarity in the GICv3 architecture, which permits
    the system memory address of LPI tables to be programmable only once
    after a CPU reset. This means kexec kernels must use the same memory
    as the first kernel, and thus ensure that this memory has not been
    given out for other purposes by the time the ITS init code runs, which
    is not very early for secondary CPUs.
    
    On systems with many CPUs, these reservations could overflow the
    memblock reservation table, and this was addressed in commit:
    
      eff89628
    
     ("efi/arm: Defer persistent reservations until after paging_init()")
    
    However, this turns out to have made things worse, since the allocation
    of page tables and heap space for the resized memblock reservation table
    itself may overwrite the regions we are attempting to reserve, which may
    cause all kinds of corruption, also considering that the ITS will still
    be poking bits into that memory in response to incoming MSIs.
    
    So instead, let's grow the static memblock reservation table on such
    systems so it can accommodate these reservations at an earlier time.
    This will permit us to revert the above commit in a subsequent patch.
    
    [ mingo: Minor cleanups. ]
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
    Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190215123333.21209-2-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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