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Commit eff89628 authored by Ard Biesheuvel's avatar Ard Biesheuvel Committed by Ingo Molnar
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efi/arm: Defer persistent reservations until after paging_init()



The new memory EFI reservation feature we introduced to allow memory
reservations to persist across kexec may trigger an unbounded number
of calls to memblock_reserve(). The memblock subsystem can deal with
this fine, but not before memblock resizing is enabled, which we can
only do after paging_init(), when the memory we reallocate the array
into is actually mapped.

So break out the memreserve table processing into a separate routine
and call it after paging_init() on arm64. On ARM, because of limited
reviewing bandwidth of the maintainer, we cannot currently fix this,
so instead, disable the EFI persistent memreserve entirely on ARM so
we can fix it later.

Tested-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181114175544.12860-5-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 72a58a63
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