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Re: [PATCH] xen/device-tree: Allow exact match for overlapping regions



Hi Michal,

On 06/11/2024 15:07, Michal Orzel wrote:


On 06/11/2024 14:41, Luca Fancellu wrote:


There are some cases where the device tree exposes a memory range
in both /memreserve/ and reserved-memory node, in this case the
current code will stop Xen to boot since it will find that the
latter range is clashing with the already recorded /memreserve/
ranges.

Furthermore, u-boot lists boot modules ranges, such as ramdisk,
in the /memreserve/ part and even in this case this will prevent
Xen to boot since it will see that the module memory range that
it is going to add in 'add_boot_module' clashes with a /memreserve/
range.

When Xen populate the data structure that tracks the memory ranges,
it also adds a memory type described in 'enum membank_type', so
in order to fix this behavior, allow the 'check_reserved_regions_overlap'
function to check for exact memory range match given a specific memory
type; allowing reserved-memory node ranges and boot modules to have an
exact match with ranges from /memreserve/.

While there, set a type for the memory recorded during ACPI boot.

Fixes: 53dc37829c31 ("xen/arm: Add DT reserve map regions to 
bootinfo.reserved_mem")
Reported-by: Shawn Anastasio <sanastasio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii_strashko@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@xxxxxxx>
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I tested this patch adding the same range in a /memreserve/ entry and
/reserved-memory node, and by letting u-boot pass a ramdisk.
I've also tested that a configuration running static shared memory still works
fine.
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So we have 2 separate issues. I don't particularly like the concept of 
introducing MEMBANK_NONE
and the changes below look a bit too much for me, given that for boot modules 
we can only have
/memreserve/ matching initrd.

How so? Is this an observation or part of a specification?

Cheers,


--
Julien Grall




 


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