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: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
index 845174e113ce..100ce4a4aff6 100644
--- a/include/linux/efi.h
+++ b/include/linux/efi.h
@@ -1167,6 +1167,8 @@ static inline bool efi_enabled(int feature)
 extern void efi_reboot(enum reboot_mode reboot_mode, const char *__unused);
 
 extern bool efi_is_table_address(unsigned long phys_addr);
+
+extern int efi_apply_persistent_mem_reservations(void);
 #else
 static inline bool efi_enabled(int feature)
 {
@@ -1185,6 +1187,11 @@ static inline bool efi_is_table_address(unsigned long phys_addr)
 {
         return false;
 }
+
+static inline int efi_apply_persistent_mem_reservations(void)
+{
+        return 0;
+}
 #endif
 
 extern int efi_status_to_err(efi_status_t status);