arm64: allow kernel Image to be loaded anywhere in physical memory

This relaxes the kernel Image placement requirements, so that it
may be placed at any 2 MB aligned offset in physical memory.

This is accomplished by ignoring PHYS_OFFSET when installing
memblocks, and accounting for the apparent virtual offset of
the kernel Image. As a result, virtual address references
below PAGE_OFFSET are correctly mapped onto physical references
into the kernel Image regardless of where it sits in memory.

Special care needs to be taken for dealing with memory limits passed
via mem=, since the generic implementation clips memory top down, which
may clip the kernel image itself if it is loaded high up in memory. To
deal with this case, we simply add back the memory covering the kernel
image, which may result in more memory to be retained than was passed
as a mem= parameter.

Since mem= should not be considered a production feature, a panic notifier
handler is installed that dumps the memory limit at panic time if one was
set.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

1 files changed, 61 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
index 52d1fc465885..c0ea54bd9995 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -35,8 +35,10 @@
 #include <linux/efi.h>
 #include <linux/swiotlb.h>
 
+#include <asm/boot.h>
 #include <asm/fixmap.h>
 #include <asm/kasan.h>
+#include <asm/kernel-pgtable.h>
 #include <asm/memory.h>
 #include <asm/sections.h>
 #include <asm/setup.h>
@@ -46,7 +48,13 @@
 
 #include "mm.h"
 
-phys_addr_t memstart_addr __read_mostly = 0;
+/*
+ * We need to be able to catch inadvertent references to memstart_addr
+ * that occur (potentially in generic code) before arm64_memblock_init()
+ * executes, which assigns it its actual value. So use a default value
+ * that cannot be mistaken for a real physical address.
+ */
+phys_addr_t memstart_addr __read_mostly = ~0ULL;
 phys_addr_t arm64_dma_phys_limit __read_mostly;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
@@ -160,7 +168,33 @@ early_param("mem", early_mem);
 
 void __init arm64_memblock_init(void)
 {
-	memblock_enforce_memory_limit(memory_limit);
+	const s64 linear_region_size = -(s64)PAGE_OFFSET;
+
+	/*
+	 * Select a suitable value for the base of physical memory.
+	 */
+	memstart_addr = round_down(memblock_start_of_DRAM(),
+				   ARM64_MEMSTART_ALIGN);
+
+	/*
+	 * Remove the memory that we will not be able to cover with the
+	 * linear mapping. Take care not to clip the kernel which may be
+	 * high in memory.
+	 */
+	memblock_remove(max(memstart_addr + linear_region_size, __pa(_end)),
+			ULLONG_MAX);
+	if (memblock_end_of_DRAM() > linear_region_size)
+		memblock_remove(0, memblock_end_of_DRAM() - linear_region_size);
+
+	/*
+	 * Apply the memory limit if it was set. Since the kernel may be loaded
+	 * high up in memory, add back the kernel region that must be accessible
+	 * via the linear mapping.
+	 */
+	if (memory_limit != (phys_addr_t)ULLONG_MAX) {
+		memblock_enforce_memory_limit(memory_limit);
+		memblock_add(__pa(_text), (u64)(_end - _text));
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Register the kernel text, kernel data, initrd, and initial
@@ -386,3 +420,28 @@ static int __init keepinitrd_setup(char *__unused)
 
 __setup("keepinitrd", keepinitrd_setup);
 #endif
+
+/*
+ * Dump out memory limit information on panic.
+ */
+static int dump_mem_limit(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long v, void *p)
+{
+	if (memory_limit != (phys_addr_t)ULLONG_MAX) {
+		pr_emerg("Memory Limit: %llu MB\n", memory_limit >> 20);
+	} else {
+		pr_emerg("Memory Limit: none\n");
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static struct notifier_block mem_limit_notifier = {
+	.notifier_call = dump_mem_limit,
+};
+
+static int __init register_mem_limit_dumper(void)
+{
+	atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list,
+				       &mem_limit_notifier);
+	return 0;
+}
+__initcall(register_mem_limit_dumper);