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The early reservations of memory areas used by the firmware, bootloader, kernel text and data are spread over setup_arch(). Moreover, some of them happen *after* memblock allocations, e.g trim_platform_memory_ranges() and trim_low_memory_range() are called after reserve_real_mode() that allocates memory. There was no corruption of these memory regions because memblock always allocates memory either from the end of memory (in top-down mode) or above the kernel image (in bottom-up mode). However, the bottom up mode is going to be updated to span the entire memory [1] to avoid limitations caused by KASLR. Consolidate early memory reservations in a dedicated function to improve robustness against future changes. Having the early reservations in one place also makes it clearer what memory must be reserved before memblock allocations are allowed. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Link: [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201217201214.3414100-2-guro@fb.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210302100406.22059-2-rppt@kernel.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.