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x86/boot: Move EFI range reservation after cmdline parsing
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commit 2f5b351 upstream.

The memory reservation in arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c depends on at
least two command line parameters. Put it back later in the boot process
and move efi_memblock_x86_reserve_range() out of early_memory_reserve().

An attempt to fix this was done in

  8d48bf8 ("x86/boot: Pull up cmdline preparation and early param parsing")

but that caused other troubles so it got reverted.

The bug this is addressing is:

Dan reports that Anjaneya Chagam can no longer use the efi=nosoftreserve
kernel command line parameter to suppress "soft reservation" behavior.

This is due to the fact that the following call-chain happens at boot:

  early_reserve_memory
  |-> efi_memblock_x86_reserve_range
      |-> efi_fake_memmap_early

which does

        if (!efi_soft_reserve_enabled())
                return;

and that would have set EFI_MEM_NO_SOFT_RESERVE after having parsed
"nosoftreserve".

However, parse_early_param() gets called *after* it, leading to the boot
cmdline not being taken into account.

See also https://lore.kernel.org/r/e8dd8993c38702ee6dd73b3c11f158617e665607.camel@intel.com

  [ bp: Turn into a proper patch. ]

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211213112757.2612-4-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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rppt authored and gregkh committed Dec 29, 2021
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
Expand Up @@ -713,9 +713,6 @@ static void __init early_reserve_memory(void)

early_reserve_initrd();

if (efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT))
efi_memblock_x86_reserve_range();

memblock_x86_reserve_range_setup_data();

reserve_ibft_region();
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parse_early_param();

if (efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT))
efi_memblock_x86_reserve_range();

#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
/*
* Memory used by the kernel cannot be hot-removed because Linux
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