Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] openrisc: Reserve memblock for initrd

From: Stafford Horne
Date: Sat Sep 05 2020 - 09:25:41 EST


On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 10:19:33PM +0900, Stafford Horne wrote:
> Recently OpenRISC added support for external initrd images, but I found
> some instability when using larger buildroot initrd images. It turned
> out that I forgot to reserve the memblock space for the initrd image.
>
> This patch fixes the instability issue by reserving memblock space.
>
> Fixes: ff6c923dbec3 ("openrisc: Add support for external initrd images")
> Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
Forgot to mention:

Changes since v1:
- Updated to use separate variables as suggested by Mike.

> arch/openrisc/kernel/setup.c | 10 ++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/openrisc/kernel/setup.c b/arch/openrisc/kernel/setup.c
> index b18e775f8be3..13c87f1f872b 100644
> --- a/arch/openrisc/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/openrisc/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -80,6 +80,16 @@ static void __init setup_memory(void)
> */
> memblock_reserve(__pa(_stext), _end - _stext);
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
> + /* Then reserve the initrd, if any */
> + if (initrd_start && (initrd_end > initrd_start)) {
> + unsigned long aligned_start = ALIGN_DOWN(initrd_start, PAGE_SIZE);
> + unsigned long aligned_end = ALIGN(initrd_end, PAGE_SIZE);
> +
> + memblock_reserve(__pa(aligned_start), aligned_end - aligned_start);
> + }
> +#endif /* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD */
> +
> early_init_fdt_reserve_self();
> early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem();
>
> --
> 2.26.2
>